Jeff Tsai on thu 27 jun 02
I have to say I'm all for the digital photo method. Imagine never having to
worry about where you put the slides again, getting reprints, etc. etc. YOu
just pull them up. If I had money or any technical know how...I'd start
getting the gear to take digital photos of high quality...unfortunately I'm a
poor man. I still borrow cameras when I need slides and do roll after roll at
one time so I don't borrow too often. I doubt that will change in the near
future and I only hope it doesn't go all digital too soon.
-jeff
Working Potter on thu 27 jun 02
Dear Jeff,
You still may be able to borrow a digital camera if a friend has one.You can
download the pics to a cd[eventually a dvd] and the camera owner can reuse
the memory chip and the cd can be had for under a dollar[some are free if
you send in the rebate] and the cd should be backed up and the copy kept
seperately in case something goes wrong with the first one.The cameras
prices are dropping dramatically as are the cdrw and zip stuff, but I
prefer dvd when it gets cheaper but now the players can show both in most
cases.I always used slides but digital is so much more potter friendly and
you can delete unwanted shots and reuse the memory ad infinitum nearly.The
bateries are still pricy so a reader is a battery saver to transfer to the
computer rather than direct camera transfer.Some of the new batteries are
great for speed of recharge and the discharge to zero is now eliminated in
the new generation batteries but they are very pricy as yet..The new
printers that take the memory chips are great for printed images and if you
use the higher resolution setttings taking the images and heavy weight
papers the results are very acceptable now.
Misty
In a message dated 6/27/2002 10:10:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
DemJeffHQ@AOL.COM writes:
> I still borrow cameras when I need slides and do roll after roll at
> one time so I don't borrow too often. I doubt that will change in the near
> future and I only hope it doesn't go all digital too soon.
>
>
Hank Murrow on thu 27 jun 02
Jeff wrote;
>I have to say I'm all for the digital photo method. Imagine never having to
>worry about where you put the slides again, getting reprints, etc. etc. YOu
>just pull them up. If I had money or any technical know how...I'd start
>getting the gear to take digital photos of high quality...unfortunately I'm a
>poor man. I still borrow cameras when I need slides and do roll after roll at
>one time so I don't borrow too often. I doubt that will change in the near
>future and I only hope it doesn't go all digital too soon.
Dear Jeff;
Here is a half-step towards digital. You can take your slides
to a film processor who makes them into CDs after they've been
mounted, and this way will cost a setup fee of around $12 plus $1 or
so per slide. You can also find a processor who will put your rolls
on a CD before they are mounted.....cost about $15/roll, and then
they will mount your slides as usual. You wind up with your slides as
usual and a CD with your images in five different resolutions from
tiny to 750K each. You can pick the rez to match your intentions.
If you like, email me privately, and i will send you a sample
image done this way. BTW, I shoot with a Minolta SRT-101 with a Macro
100mm lens onto Fuji RTP-II color film, asa 60. I use a
color-balanced halogen bulb for my light source. Exposures run around
1 second.
Cheers, Hank in Eugene
Russel Fouts on sun 30 jun 02
Hank,
>> If you like, email me privately, and i will send you a sample image done this way. BTW, I shoot with a Minolta SRT-101 with a Macro 100mm lens onto Fuji RTP-II color film, asa 60. I use a color-balanced halogen bulb for my light source. Exposures run around 1 second. <<
Where do you get these? Is there somewhere to mail order? Do they come
in different wattages, color temperatures? Are you using color or
daylight? I guess you'd want to use 500 in any case.
>> Here is a half-step towards digital. You can take your slides to a film processor who makes them into CDs after they've been mounted, and this way will cost a setup fee of around $12 plus $1 or so per slide. You can also find a processor who will put your rolls on a CD before they are mounted.....cost about $15/roll, and then they will mount your slides as usual. You wind up with your slides as usual and a CD with your images in five different resolutions from tiny to 750K each. You can pick the rez to match your intentions. <<
Just for the record, this is exactly what I do. It's far less costly (I
use a nearly 40 year old Cannon FTb) and you get both slides and
digital.
I'd also like to second what Bruce said about how the images will appear
different on different screens. This is really true. Color balance
resolution, brightness, contrast, temperature, age of the screen,
quality of the screen, trinitron or not, CRT or LCD, the program used
for the viewing, etc, etc, etc, different, different, different. Too
many variables.
I'm not sure how one can overcome this.
BTW, really nice pics on your pages (but am I really seeing them
correctly ;-)
Russel (not had a digest since the 27th and Query Clayart is not
returned. Is something amiss?)
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