From: PontiacV8
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals
Subject: Re: I shall stop posting here...
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:34:29 +0100

Hiya Ralf!

Excellent choice there! I use a Nikon Coolscan 3 - LS30, so you can see the
results for yourself. A word of warning though, the software with this
scanner has no auto white balance, so you have to do all the colour
balancing manually! With negative film, the scanner seems to be pretty well
set up OK from the factory, and just needs minor tweaks depending on the
brand and speed of film, but with Slides, it's way off, and I had to spend
a day just trying to get things sorted. When you get it, if you have
trouble, I'll EMail you my setup files, so you'll have somthing to go on.

Good luck!

Yours. Pont.
Ps. For added incentive, attached is a pic scanned at 1350DPI, that's half
the scanners resolution, but the pic size is not squashed. Warning, it's
BIG! This was scanned form Kodachrome K200 slide film.

Ralf Schmode wrote:
> ... for just a couple of days, until I get my negative scanner :-))) -
> After some time of thinking about it and counting my money, I have
> decided to order a Nikon Coolscan to get out of my pics what is really
> in them. I have read many reports who consider scanning the negatives
> sort of a quantum leap as compared to scanned prints. I shall keep you
> informed as the first scans will hopefully be out here next week.
>
> Stay tuned, and have a nice Sunday -
>
> Ralf
>
> --
> Meine Tierfotoseite im Internet - My animal photo page on the WWW:
> http://mercury.spaceports.com/~schmode
> PGP (DH/DSS + RSA) at http://mercury.spaceports.com/~schmode/pgpkey.htm
> or from key servers (use keys with "TrustCenter" certificate)



--
Ps. Having trouble with my BT ISP at the moment,
it seems far too slow so I'm stuck to using Freeserve.
Either EMail address will reach me. Thanks.

Visit the Pont websites dedicated to kitties.

My own trio of trouble at - http://www.BTinternet.com/~pontiacV8
Big cat pix, mpegs, wavs etc at - http://www.350bhp.freeserve.co.uk


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