Remember when Polaroid remaindered the SS4000? I bought one at the ridiculously low price... and it's still waiting to be installed! My main activity is editing music, my computer is set up as a digital audio workstation, and I simply haven't found the time to learn scanning & Photoshop.
Needing really good scans from a few significant 35mm images, I took them to my preferred lab, the Light Room in Berkeley. Rob, the owner, has an excellent track record with my work. He uses an Imacon scanner, and a couple of printers, including the high-end Epson (3200?). In recent weeks I've needed large prints of a couple of Himalayan images for a Tibetan Buddhist art show at Seattle Art Museum, so I called Rob and asked his advice. (One of the images, a richly detailed Kodachrome 25 of a Buddhist deity, shot in 1983, was scanned a year or so back at 5600 dpi, the other, more of a picture postcard of a landscape outside Leh, Ladakh, was scanned at 6300 dpi -- also K25.) He said there would be no problem printing them 18" in the narrow direction. When the prints arrived, approx 18" x 24" on half-sheets (23" x 34") of giclée paper, I was amazed. *All* of the fine detail in the Buddhist deity survived the enlargement, even at close viewing. Since there was a little cropping in the narrow direction, this means the degree of enlargement was actually 19x or 20x! The scenic isn't a great favourite of mine (the museum asked for it) but it too looks excellent. And the kicker is that I saved several hundred dollars from the price that the fine art giclée printer here on Maui wanted for the same work. Salutations, David Lewiston ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body