David Mann wrote: > On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> Having spent a good part of two days on and off scanning P645 >> negatives, I'm resigned to the fact that this process is hopelessly, >> infuriatingly tedious and unproductive. I remember now why I was so >> happy to be done with it. > > Scanning medium format is pretty tedious. When I scan I sit aside > with a book as each scan takes about 15 minutes after I've finished > fiddling with the settings. Later in the evening I'll process the > files in Photoshop with some music on. The dICE doesn't seem to work > as well with 6x7 slides so the dust spotting takes a while. > > 35mm isn't too bad once I get into a good workflow. At the moment > I'm slowly working through a shoebox of old Kodachromes that someone > asked me to scan. Those ones are driving me slightly crazy. > > - Dave
Interesting. What scanner are you using? My 4490 does a 6x6 slide in 3 minutes or so at 2400dpi once I've picked the settings (optical limits of the pre-V series Epson flatbeds is around 2000dpi so there's no real point to scanning at higher resolutions). And Kodachrome is a royal pain to scan. One reason I avoid the stuff. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
