 Steve M. Harrington |
Scanning advice I've just bought a Pacific Image Prime-Film 1800 Silver. It has SilverFast SE 5.0,Photoshop LE 5.0, and scans at 1800 dpi. I want to scan 35mm slides. I have over 2000 from India alone. Then there's Scandinavia, the Canadian Rockies, etc. Will this scanner handle a big workload? I want to create slide shows and prints up to 8x10. Will I run into problems with Kodachrome slides? I'm as new to scanning as I am typing (sigh). Any guidance will be greatly appreciated. Steve
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doug Nelson |
Learn to use both Silverfast and LE. Both can do the job, but you may develop a a preference for the way one does certain operations over the other. Scan a slide at 1800 ppi. Divide the long dimension of a scan (in pixels) by 10. If you are at or around 240 ppi (pixels per inch), you should be able to print a nice 8 x 10. Its not a fast process, with any film scanner. Kodachrome will scan fine, but the dust cleanup functions will not work with Kchrome. You will have to go into your clone (rubber stamp) tool and clean up the inevitable dust spots. A fast work flow for me is about 5 or 6 slides an evening before marital discord sets in. If you are single, you might be able to do 10. Do your very best slides in each category first. A problem with many slides is getting detail in the shadow areas. Silverfast may do a better job of bringing out shadow detail, but don't expect to see all you see on a light table. Its the nature of the beast. If you have a great shot or two in which you MUST see all the shadow detail, find a shop that will do them on an Imacon drum scanner.
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doug Nelson |
Steve, RE: my paragraph 2 above: After your scan, go to Image/Image Size in Photoshop LE. You will get a readout of the scan resolution, and the dimensions of the image. You can enter 10 inches as the image length, and LE will do the calculations for you. See what your resolution reads.
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