Billie Schwab on sat 16 oct 99
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Has anyone gone through the process of trying to have slides made from =
digital
pics? I am having a heck of a time finding information.......... If anyone =
is
willing to share, I would appreciate any and all feedback. I am using a =
Sony
Mavica Digital.........also, anybody have a favorite program to edit digital
pics?
TIA,
Billie
Richard Jeffery on sun 17 oct 99
Billie
Try a professional developing house, if you haven't already. The one I use
to develop my 6x7 trannies offers a similar service, although I haven't
tried it. It is expensive though - it's geared up for pro photographers
with huge picture files (probably by ISDN) who want a "proof" before sending
the file off to the printers. Worth a try, though?
Richard
Bournemouth UK
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Subject: slides from digital pics
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Has anyone gone through the process of trying to have slides made from
digital
pics? I am having a heck of a time finding information.......... If anyone
is
willing to share, I would appreciate any and all feedback. I am using a
Sony
Mavica Digital.........also, anybody have a favorite program to edit digital
pics?
TIA,
Billie
Louis H.. Katz on sun 17 oct 99
I am pretty sure that Meisel Imaging in Dallas (they have an 800 number) provide
this service.
They also have excellent slide duplication at very low prices. Make sure you mar
your originals because the dupes are nearly identical.
I have sent them lots of dupes and developing and have only had one problem.
They sent me someone elses stuff once. Fortunately it was well marked and the
problem was resolved. Never have I had off color from them.
Louis
Billie Schwab wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
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> Has anyone gone through the process of trying to have slides made from digital
> pics? I am having a heck of a time finding information.......... If anyone is
> willing to share, I would appreciate any and all feedback. I am using a Sony
> Mavica Digital.........also, anybody have a favorite program to edit digital
> pics?
> TIA,
> Billie
Matt Alexander on sun 17 oct 99
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
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>Has anyone gone through the process of trying to have slides made from digital
>pics? I am having a heck of a time finding information.......... If anyone is
>willing to share, I would appreciate any and all feedback. I am using a Sony
>Mavica Digital.........also, anybody have a favorite program to edit digital
>pics?
>TIA,
>Billie
For my 2 cents - If these are slides for your own use/record, any decent
photography store/lab should have this service availible. However, don't
expect great quality - or cheap slides for that matter. The lab I work with
charges $10 each. I'm sure if I had a $10,000 professional digital camera
that the slides would would look great - but any consumer-grade camera
just doesn't have the resolution you need to get a real good slide.
Someday - maybe in the next 5-10 years, consumer digital cameras will reach
the same quality as film, but not now. Digital is great if you have a use
for it - web sites is a great example. But if you want a camera to replace
the quality of your trusty 35mm - you'll be very disappointed. At the
moment a $50 scanner will give you better results than a $1000 digital
camera.
My opinion - if you are doing slides to submit to galleries/shows etc...
use real film.
Matt
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Linda Blossom on mon 18 oct 99
"Someday - maybe in the next 5-10 years, consumer digital cameras will reach
the same quality as film, but not now. Digital is great if you have a use
for it - web sites is a great example. But if you want a camera to replace
the quality of your trusty 35mm - you'll be very disappointed. At the
moment a $50 scanner will give you better results than a $1000 digital
camera."
I don't know about slides - I usually need photos that I can show clients
which is different from the needs of people who want to get into shows. I
would disagree with the above when it comes to pictures. I have a Sony
Mavica FD 91. I am very happy with the photos I get with its higher
resolution, even though there are cameras out there for less with high
resolution. I bought an HP 970cse color inkjet printer and putting that
together with the photo paper, the pictures are as good as any I have had
from print film. The real advantage, however, is that after I take the
photo, I can delete it if it isn't right, try again, and then edit it to
trim it, lighten it or deepen the values, change the contrast...and when I
like it, print it. I can get the one picture I want without paying for the
film and developing of the other 23 shots that aren't exactly right. I can
make as many copies as I need, the "negative" is on a floppy which came from
my camera and went right to my computer.The camera is not film dependent so
it does not matter if I am indoors or out - it handles the color balance. I
have taken photos of ceramic work with indoor light, in the evening, without
the flash, and have been very happy with the results.
Linda Blossom
2366 Slaterville Rd
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-539-7912
blossom@twcny.rr.com
Lyda, Mike on mon 18 oct 99
Here's a couple of services online that offer the service - you can email
them the files and they'll output to slide. I also found a local
(Asheville, NC) photo shop that can do this, but it's about a dollar more
per slide. ($4-$5 per slide seems to be a good price).
http://www.expressdigitalimages.com/
http://www.dilab.com/
I had the local photo shop do some transfers from digital to slide and they
came out great - they were screenshots (not images from a digital camera)
however.
My favorite image editing software... Paint Shop Pro 5.0 and Macromedia
Fireworks (for web bound images)
Paul V. on mon 18 oct 99
> Has anyone gone through the process of trying to have slides made from
digital pics?
I do it with no problem. All you need is to find a business with a film
recorder.
> I am using a Sony Mavica Digital.....
This could be a problem for the quality of the slides. If this is one of
the Sony cameras that get 40 images onto one floppy then don't expect much
quality. The 3.5 inch floppy is a very low quality storage device when it
comes to putting more than one or two photographs on it. Saving the photos
in jpeg (.jpg) format will help preserve the image because of the miracle
of file compression.
Quality is relative to what you are doing with the image. I have seen the
Sony photos printed on a dye-sub printer at 4x6 size and they look digital.
Making them wallet size is the only way to have them look good at photo
quality without the image quality falling apart. If you have slides made
and you are not going to project them, but only look at them without
magnification in PrintFile pages then they would look pretty good.
If you want to give a lecture and project them 10 X 15 feet is size then
your audience will be bleary-eyed looking at the rasterized blobs of
pixellated image. You'd be better off reshooting the photos on 35mm slide
film if they are for projection.
Rather than using low image quality digital cameras, you would be better
off using 35mm film and have it processed someplace where they could
process the film and write the images to CD's. This way you will have a
high quality negative or slide in your archive for future use and you will
have digital files of high quality that you can always reduce the size of
for use on web pages & etc. The Kodak Picture CD system gives you an image
1024x1536 pixels the Impak system gives a slightly larger image size.
Where I get this work done they charge $2.50 for process only of negative
film and 10.99 to write the roll to CD. The image quality is better than
the $1,000 digital cameras. If I have this done twice a year for my best
portfolio pieces then it would take 33 years of paying these prices to
equal the price of a high quality digital camera that would be of slightly
lesser image quality. This is cost effective with the current state of
technology.
You do get what you pay for. If you drop the film off at your local drug
store you can have lots of problems. Dirty film written to CD means dirty
digital files. Find a camera store that does processing, not all one-hour
labs have educated personnel. Find a place that knows what they are doing.
It does make a difference in what you get. The higher price usually
reflect things like trained and educated personnel, routine machine
cleaning, maintenance, process control. These are the intangibles that
should be valued. Why should someone buy a piece of your pottery when they
can go to a Wal-Mart and buy some pottery? They are both pots aren't they?
Is there any difference or do you just charge more?
>....also, anybody have a favorite program to edit digital.
I use PhotoShop, but if you only want to do simple things it is overkill.
Maybe Picture It or PhotoDeluxe would do the job for you, they are
probably under $100 US.
Paul
mf-scott@life.uiuc.edu on mon 18 oct 99
hi billie
i work for a university dept that makes slides from digital files
(mostly text and graphics, in which color matching is not critical)
we find the best settings for our equipment to be:
image size - 6 x 9 inches
resolution - 200 ppi or greater
the program we use for editing is Adobe Photoshop
molly
Scott Harrison on tue 19 oct 99
I create our Senior slide show here at my high school by scanning all
the photos at 100 dpi and fixing them up in Photoshop. Then I put the
camera on a tripod and compose the shot with the image on the computer
screen. I use a slow shutter speed (about 1/8 second) to lose the screen
redraw and fire away. Use manual focus and do some test slides. I think our
last batch was ASA 200 film and F8 at 1/8 second exposure. Don't depend on
the camera meter but bracket a test series. Quality might surprise you.
Scott Harrison
sharrison@humboldt.k12.ca.us
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