Comments on: Stepping in a slide zone http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/2006/09/23/stepping-in-a-slide-zone/ The not-quite-daily, not-entirely-incoherent ramblings of your little...green...friend, webmaster Earl Green. If you read this blog, you'd better like some baby and cat pictures. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ubikuberalles http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/2006/09/23/stepping-in-a-slide-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 ubikuberalles Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:34:22 +0000 http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/?p=441#comment-1104 It's a bummer that your grandfather's photos appear to be lost. It's really cool to scan old pictures you haven't seen since you were a kid or never seen before. I plan to borrow my parents pictures and negatives someday. My mom doesn't understand but I hope to convince her to part with them for the short time it takes me to scan them. They have a lot of old pictures and so it would be a major project (bigger than scanning all of my pictures). My first goal is to scan pictures of me and my siblings when we were young. It’s a bummer that your grandfather’s photos appear to be lost. It’s really cool to scan old pictures you haven’t seen since you were a kid or never seen before.

I plan to borrow my parents pictures and negatives someday. My mom doesn’t understand but I hope to convince her to part with them for the short time it takes me to scan them. They have a lot of old pictures and so it would be a major project (bigger than scanning all of my pictures). My first goal is to scan pictures of me and my siblings when we were young.

]]> By: Earl http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/2006/09/23/stepping-in-a-slide-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-1102 Earl Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:08:08 +0000 http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/?p=441#comment-1102 Actually, your mention of getting one some time back was what put the mental post-it note in the back of my brain to grab a film/neg scanner if I ever found an affordable one. The one huge pang of regret is that my grandfather, who was an award-winning photographer, put together a huge number of slide shows of his work, and narrated them all, put cue tones on his cassettes and had it all keyed to work with the theater-style viewing gallery he built in the basement of his home. I have no idea what happened to all of his work when he died about 11 years ago, and I wish that this technology had been around to preserve all of that work while he was alive. He was a traditionalist, but he was intrigued enough the year that I brought my video camera with me that I think he might've been tickled to have his stuff archived as JPGs, MP3s, and Flash slideshows. That's the one regret that just kills me. I could do that <em>now.</em> Anyway, now <em>I'm</em> babbling. This is what happens when it's 5am. Actually, your mention of getting one some time back was what put the mental post-it note in the back of my brain to grab a film/neg scanner if I ever found an affordable one.

The one huge pang of regret is that my grandfather, who was an award-winning photographer, put together a huge number of slide shows of his work, and narrated them all, put cue tones on his cassettes and had it all keyed to work with the theater-style viewing gallery he built in the basement of his home. I have no idea what happened to all of his work when he died about 11 years ago, and I wish that this technology had been around to preserve all of that work while he was alive. He was a traditionalist, but he was intrigued enough the year that I brought my video camera with me that I think he might’ve been tickled to have his stuff archived as JPGs, MP3s, and Flash slideshows. That’s the one regret that just kills me. I could do that now.

Anyway, now I’m babbling. This is what happens when it’s 5am.

]]> By: ubikuberalles http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/2006/09/23/stepping-in-a-slide-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-1101 ubikuberalles Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:32:36 +0000 http://www.thelogbook.com/earl/?p=441#comment-1101 Negative scanners are pretty cool. If you recall, I got mine about a year ago and it was fun scanning in my old negatives. When I first got the scanner I wanted to scan at the highest resolution (2400 bpi, I think). That took <i>forever</i> and it didn't really improve the quality of the scan. That's partly because, at certain scan resolutions, the granular pattern of the film interferred with the rectangular pattern of the scanner. Makes a nice moire pattern but it doesn't make for a great picture. As a result, most of my scans are at 600 dpi. Another problem I discovered is that I have to resize my scans if I want to incorporate them with other pictures via photoshop. My digital camera generates pictures at 144 dpi and if I try to add a scanned picture to it via Photoshop, the scanned picture is HUGE!!!! I have to either resize the negative or change it to match the dpi of the other picture. Oops. Sorry for the babblin'. Enjoy your new scanner! Negative scanners are pretty cool. If you recall, I got mine about a year ago and it was fun scanning in my old negatives. When I first got the scanner I wanted to scan at the highest resolution (2400 bpi, I think). That took forever and it didn’t really improve the quality of the scan. That’s partly because, at certain scan resolutions, the granular pattern of the film interferred with the rectangular pattern of the scanner. Makes a nice moire pattern but it doesn’t make for a great picture. As a result, most of my scans are at 600 dpi.

Another problem I discovered is that I have to resize my scans if I want to incorporate them with other pictures via photoshop. My digital camera generates pictures at 144 dpi and if I try to add a scanned picture to it via Photoshop, the scanned picture is HUGE!!!! I have to either resize the negative or change it to match the dpi of the other picture.

Oops. Sorry for the babblin’. Enjoy your new scanner!

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