Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help
I happened to do Soccer, but with the same goal in mind. First, get Vuescan (www.hamrick.com). Best $40 you'll ever spend. If you get the white and black points right, and scan at 1/7, (it's in downsample somewhere in Vuescan -- I think you just put in 7. You might try 8 or 9 too), you get webready images. Put them all in a directory as JPEGs, about 75% quality. Second, get a second carrier (slide or neg, whichever you use). It doubles your scanning efficiency to be loading one while one is scanning. Under $20. Third, create another directory with the same name, but add -Webpage. It cannot be a subdirectory. Use Photoshop to build a quick webpage. File-Automate-Web Photo Gallery. Your picture directory as source and your -Webpage as the destination. It will create a file called Index.Htm in the destination directory. At the hockey rink, open IE (or Netscape) and open that file. That's it. You can do the same thing with Polacolor, I just find Vuescan easier. Tom - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 6:12 AM Subject: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help Fairly new with a film scanner. Have Polaroid 4000 and using Polarcolor and Photoshop 6.0 at present - Silverfast later. Situation, I shoot kids ice hockey each weekend (Nikon F5 300/2.8) for our team. Want to scan photos to zip and display on laptop at rink for parents to see and then buy those that they like, which I will then rescan at higher resolution and correct. What is the quickest method to accomplish this? In addition, we manage the kids web site and would like to be able to transfer this first scan down to web-ready image. Have several hundred photos to handle and need the most effective method. Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thanks - From an overworked volunteer parent!
Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help
I'm assuming you're shooting on neg film. Different problem if slides. I would get the cheapest possible 6x4 photographic prints made and scan those on any old cheap flatbed scanner, several at a time, to provide the laptop proofs (or take the album of prints and not scan them at all until you have to). This will be enormously less time and hassle than towsing with your filmscanner. Then use the filmscanner on the ones you want to do nicely. You may find that it's difficult to beat the enprints anyway, without taking quite a time, unless you're doing big enlargements. Many parents may be happy with final prints straight from the flatbed-scanned images, and you don't need especially high quality for the web page. This may seem disloyal to the list, but I really *am* an enthusiastic and regular filmscanner - it's just that it's extremely time-consuming to achieve high quality or to do large numbers of images. Regards good luck, Alan Tyson - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:12 PM Subject: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help Have Polaroid . ..shoot kids ice hockey each weekend (Nikon F5 300/2.8) for our team. Want to scan photos to zip and display on laptop at rink for parents.etc
Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help
Alan, I actually found that with the right 'workflow', it was just as fast to film scan. And cheaper. My ultimate solution to the problem was a lot more expensive. I bought a Nikon LS-4000 with the roll film adapter. I get the negatives returned uncut. Takes about 30-45 minutes to scan a roll at the smaller resolution, but I walk away while it is doing it. Tom From: Alan Tyson This may seem disloyal to the list, but I really *am* an enthusiastic and regular filmscanner - it's just that it's extremely time-consuming to achieve high quality or to do large numbers of images. Regards good luck, Alan Tyson
Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help
Is a digital camera an option for you? It would be the quickest and easiest for on-the-spot display - just download to the laptop. Maris - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 6:12 AM Subject: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help | Fairly new with a film scanner. Have Polaroid 4000 and using Polarcolor and | Photoshop 6.0 at present - Silverfast later. | | Situation, I shoot kids ice hockey each weekend (Nikon F5 300/2.8) for our | team. Want to scan photos to zip and display on laptop at rink for parents | to see and then buy those that they like, which I will then rescan at higher | resolution and correct. | | What is the quickest method to accomplish this? In addition, we manage the | kids web site and would like to be able to transfer this first scan down to | web-ready image. | | Have several hundred photos to handle and need the most effective method. | Any and all suggestions are welcome. | | Thanks - From an overworked volunteer parent!
RE: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help
From: Tom Scales [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... I happened to do Soccer, but with the same goal in mind. ... Isn't it a wider and taller goal? couldn't resist ;) Have you looked as some sites that specialize in this? I frequently use Signature Color http://www.signaturecolor.com/home/, a lab here in Austin that is primarily mail order from across the country and world. They will process your film, scan your film to their website and send you prints and a CD. They are only 1536 by 1024 at this time, but they may be upgrading to 2000 by 3000 soon. They will also upload your images to the Club Photo site http://www.clubphoto.com/ where there is a Pro-Photography section. Here you can name your price and every time a customer orders a picture you get the difference between their price and the price you name. Also, you can upload your own high-res scanned images to the site. You decide which images go into an album and which don't (you can create an album for each game for instance). Each album can have a password, so each team could access their albums, but other teams couldn't. Feel free to contact me off-list for more information. Jack Phipps Applied Science Fiction From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fairly new with a film scanner. Have Polaroid 4000 and using Polarcolor and Photoshop 6.0 at present - Silverfast later. Situation, I shoot kids ice hockey each weekend (Nikon F5 300/2.8) for our team. Want to scan photos to zip and display on laptop at rink for parents to see and then buy those that they like, which I will then rescan at higher resolution and correct. What is the quickest method to accomplish this? In addition, we manage the kids web site and would like to be able to transfer this first scan down to web-ready image. Have several hundred photos to handle and need the most effective method. Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thanks - From an overworked volunteer parent!
Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help
Jack, I hadn't, but that is good to know. Part of the fun for me is the scanning, so I really don't mind. Particularly with the LS-4000. Great suggestion though. Tom - Original Message - From: Jack Phipps [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 1:28 PM Subject: RE: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help From: Tom Scales [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... I happened to do Soccer, but with the same goal in mind. ... Isn't it a wider and taller goal? couldn't resist ;) Have you looked as some sites that specialize in this? I frequently use Signature Color http://www.signaturecolor.com/home/, a lab here in Austin that is primarily mail order from across the country and world. They will process your film, scan your film to their website and send you prints and a CD. They are only 1536 by 1024 at this time, but they may be upgrading to 2000 by 3000 soon. They will also upload your images to the Club Photo site http://www.clubphoto.com/ where there is a Pro-Photography section. Here you can name your price and every time a customer orders a picture you get the difference between their price and the price you name. Also, you can upload your own high-res scanned images to the site. You decide which images go into an album and which don't (you can create an album for each game for instance). Each album can have a password, so each team could access their albums, but other teams couldn't. Feel free to contact me off-list for more information. Jack Phipps Applied Science Fiction From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fairly new with a film scanner. Have Polaroid 4000 and using Polarcolor and Photoshop 6.0 at present - Silverfast later. Situation, I shoot kids ice hockey each weekend (Nikon F5 300/2.8) for our team. Want to scan photos to zip and display on laptop at rink for parents to see and then buy those that they like, which I will then rescan at higher resolution and correct. What is the quickest method to accomplish this? In addition, we manage the kids web site and would like to be able to transfer this first scan down to web-ready image. Have several hundred photos to handle and need the most effective method. Any and all suggestions are welcome. Thanks - From an overworked volunteer parent!
Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help
Hum, David do you think you could arrrange for a roll adapter?
Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help
Digital not an option at present. Using F5 - next step would be new D! at$4,500, therefore not an option. Thanks
Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help
I would never have bought the Nikon if the Sprintscan had a roll adapter. Tom - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 5:38 PM Subject: Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help Hum, David do you think you could arrrange for a roll adapter?
RE: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help
Believe me I am trying!!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: filmscanners: Quick / Quality Scans - Help Hum, David do you think you could arrrange for a roll adapter?
