Originally posted by ckiang
On the LS30, if you don't do additional processing, it takes me only 1 minute to scan at 2700dpi with ICE enabled. If you have lots to scan, I think better to send to the lab. After you finish the 3rd roll, you probably won't want to continue....
Regards
CK
Hi CK,
Thanks for your reply.
It took me 3 mins maybe because I'm using my 5 year old Pentium II 233Mhz PC with 128MB RAM.
Do you think if I increase the RAM to 256MB, will it help a lot?
Yes, it's really very time consuming & tedious to scan all the negatives. Till to date I've scanned about 15 rolls of negatives for the past 3 weeks. I actually enjoy doing it.
But it's quite a nightmare when I think that I still got more than 100 rolls of negatives to continue....
Originally posted by ckiang
The 4-base can actually print 8R with barely noticeable grain. I've tried it. Remember that on a monitor, it's near the equivalent of a 25" x 17" print. These grain and all do not appear on A4.
Regards
CK
Could you explain a little on the monitor 25"x17" equivalent?
Is it something like although I'm using a 15" monitor to view a full screen of the JPEG file, it's output actually displays at 72 dpi and not at let's say 150dpi which makes me think that it's grainy / pixelated.
One more question,
as I'll be burning all the 2-3MB images to a 800MB CDR to share with many of my friends in my Youth Group, what do you think is the best & 'most compatible' way to do it so that they can view on all their PC & Macs?
They'll also need to send to photo lab to print 4R & 8R photos.
My current workflow is
- I 'batch scan' the negatives using the Nikon Scan 3.1 software
- Selected RGB (Adobe) as the colour space
- Do Auto-Level for almost all images after Preview
- Apply Digital ICE (Normal)
- save in 2 - 3 MB JPEG (Good Balance) images
- The files names saved corresponse to the negative s/n & frame nos. Eg '987601A.jpg' where '9876' is the s/n & '01A' is the frame no.
- Create a few folders in the CDR.
Each folder do not exceed let's say 50 photos.
- attached freeware 'EXIF Image Viewer' for them to use to view the photos easily
Sorry for asking so many questions at one go, but really need your help...
canturn,
Sorry for 'gate-crashing' into your thread.
Moderator/s,
Pls split this thread if you think it's necessary.
Best Regards,
Tony