On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:31:48 +0400, Boris Liberman wrote: > The town where I live has only one Pro Foto Shop. It has many Foto > Shops, but only one grades itself as Pro. Anyway, my two most recent > films were scanned at 4000dpi with Nikon CoolScan 4000.
Boy, I wish I could get that in my area. Around here, the CD scans from the photo shop are at 1000 ppi (1500 x 1000). > Also, it seems to me, that except time it makes little > difference at which resolution to scan. [...] just for > $8 I have my films processed and scanned [...] That depends on the scanner. Even ignoring the time required to swap six-frame strips, scanning is much slower at 4000 ppi than at 1000 dpi on my Canon FS4000. Like, 1000 ppi scans take less than five minutes each where 4000 ppi scans take more than ten minutes each. And it costs me about $10 per roll for develop and scan around here. > Though now, no matter what, I have to spend at least one hour armed > with Healing and Cloning tools, if you know what I mean <vbg>. Get a pen like the Wacom Graphire or Intuos. Pens work much better than mice when retouching photos. That's a place where scanning your own can really help. Between having better control over the dust in the first place, and in-scanner tools like ICE and FARE, despecking/dedusting goes much more quickly on the frames I scan myself compared to the scans I get on the CD from the photo shop. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
