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    Dust all over my pictures!

    I've just spend serveral hours using the healing tool in Elements to clean up a few of my pictures that were absolutely peppered with dust bunnies, think I had a whole warren of them.

    So what's happened? Has my SSWF stopped working?

    Is SSWF just not all it's cracked up to be?

    Have I just bought a Canon?


    No, it's none of these - I've just been scanning some old slides!

    Mind you, I am getting 55mb files - in fact, the first one I scanned with too much resolution and got a 120mb file. You don't get many of those to a hard drive! Mind you, it's easy to get wrong with Medium Format slides. Eat yer heart out, Nikon!
    John

    "A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there � even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity." ~ Robert Doisneau
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    Re: Dust all over my pictures!

    Treat yourself to an iSRD scanner ... my my... it makes a difference

    These do 2 passes the 1st with light and the 2nd with Infrared. Anything that's black in the 2nd must be opaque and therefore dust so the software autclones in on these sections

    It reduced my time taken per slide to about 10 percent of the time it took without it

    I agree on filesizes ... I recently set mine on supefine by accident and generated a 750 Mb Tiff

    Given the image was only needed for web use this seemed a little excessive

    Regards
    Andy
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    • #3
      Re: Dust all over my pictures!

      Originally posted by shenstone View Post
      Treat yourself to an iSRD scanner ... my my... it makes a difference

      These do 2 passes the 1st with light and the 2nd with Infrared. Anything that's black in the 2nd must be opaque and therefore dust so the software autclones in on these sections

      It reduced my time taken per slide to about 10 percent of the time it took without it

      I agree on filesizes ... I recently set mine on supefine by accident and generated a 750 Mb Tiff

      Given the image was only needed for web use this seemed a little excessive

      Regards
      Andy
      Yes Andy, that would be the answer but I don't really do enough scanning to justify it, especially as I'm no longer producing any new slides.

      750mb for the web? You'd need a big screen to display that at 72ppi
      John

      "A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there � even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity." ~ Robert Doisneau

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      • #4
        Re: Dust all over my pictures!

        I read this with interest as I have around 3k of slides as well as 20 rolls of 35mm and dozens of strips of 110mm film. Have been toying with the idea of digitising them where possible but could never find a combo that would do all three formats.

        Can anyone shed some light???

        TY in advance for any help or tips given.
        It's not what inspires us that is important, it's where the journey takes us.

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        • #5
          Re: Dust all over my pictures!

          Mine is one of these .. (an older model) and it's been great

          http://plustek.com/usa/products/opticfilm-series/introduction.html


          it can definitely do slides and 35mm filem using the 2 types of trays . I've not got 110 and therefore never tried

          regards
          Andy
          4/3 Kit E510, E30 + 35macro, 11-22, 14-45 (x2), 14-54, 40-150 (both types), 70-300,
          m 4/3 EM1MkII + 60 macro, 12-100 Pro, 100-400
          FL20, FL36 x2 , FL50, cactus slaves etc.
          The Boss (Mrs Shenstone) E620, EM10-II, 14-41Ez, 40-150R, 9 cap and whatever she can nick from me when she wants it

          My places
          http://www.shenstone.me.uk
          http://landroverkaty.blogspot.com/
          https://vimeo.com/shenstone
          http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/
          http://swga.org.uk/

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          • #6
            Re: Dust all over my pictures!

            Does anyone know of a scanning service for APS film? I've one roll which is extremely valuable to me (taken when I was underwater in a nuclear sub!) and would love to have it digitised.
            Stephen

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            • #7
              Re: Dust all over my pictures!

              StephenL - I was looking around for APS scanner adapters and stumbled across Karmaan. http://www.karmaan.co.uk/ and look in the obvious places. I'd never heard of them before, and don't know anything about them but at around a fiver for a roll of APS it could be worth trying them out with a less important roll.

              Good luck.... John

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