Re: [APML]: Digitizing Slides. Help!

[Steve Bell <sb635@delphi.com>]

Joseph O'Neil wrote:
> 
> 
>   Even on tech pan, would they not do better than a flatbed?  I have a HP
> ScanJet 3p, which is just 256 grey scale, no colour scanning.  It cost me
> the same price that a lot of "no-name" colour flatbeds go for around
> here.
> ($600.oo CDN)
> 
>     What I find though is you still lose a lot - especially in shadow
> detail.  Would you not avoid that problem scanning right from the neg?
> 
>   joe


I'm not familiar with photographic terms, but if by "shadow detail" you mean that you 
loose the ability to 
adequately see what's in a shadow in a normal daylight photograph, then slide scanners 
suffer from a similar 
functionality.  For astro negatives, they can have a hard time differentiating between 
the dim parts of the 
object and the sky background if the negative is badly sky fogged.

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Clear skies,
Steve Bell
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