Hi Mafud: I'm probably not entirely serious about scanning everything! However, I do have a collection of negatives and slides which I have been asked to give to a web-based institute, as they are an almost unique record of a particular place taken between 1967-69, and they number several hundreds of each. In this case, it's not really my right to exclude anything except the technically bad, I think.
I will keep the negatives - my feeling is that eventually (and I'm not putting a time frame on this) it will be quite hard to get cheap wet-printing done commercially, but until then I'll maintain both, gradually building the scanned copies up. The process should be one which easily identifies those which are really worth keeping and those which can be binned. Incidentally, I did go through the hard task of weeding out the really bad stuff a couple of times already! As to whether I would choose to print from the scan or the negative: all depends on the quality I can achieve from computer technology vs traditional, modified for the potential use. I have had one perfectly satisfactory set published in a technical journal, which incidentally were (see another thread) desaturated colour scanned from an original 35mm slide at 1600dpi on a flatbed - pushing the technology a bit, I think! John Coyle Brisbane, Australia On Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > In a message dated 11/14/01 5:07:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > Time to get scanning - only about 6000 negatives and slides to go, and I'll > > > > be > > up to date - if I stop shooting new stuff! > > > > > > Hey John! > > Are you going to scan ~each and every~ negative? And why? > What I realized is that most "snapshots" are only good for viewing, not > keeping. > > But how many... all of them? And pray tell, what are you going to do with the > negatives? ...And which would you actually choose to have a print made from > in ten years: your CD or the negatives? > > Mafud > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
