[PRCo] slide scanning

[Bob Rathke]

I have a Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 slide scanner, and also an HP flatbed/slide scanner. For web uploading and e-mails I scan slides at 600 dpi and often make lower-res copies, but for making photo enlargements and for publication use I scan slides at 4,000 dpi TIF. 

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From: "George W. Gula via Pittsburgh-railways" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
To: "DF Cramer" <alto_trombone at hotmail.com>, "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 2:48:41 PM 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] slide scanning 

Dennis 

I scan at 4000 dpi in 8 bit color for color slides using a Nikon Scanner, 
no longer available. File size is around 53MB. B&W prints are done at 
16bit 1200 or 2400 dpi depending on photo size and detail. Large files for 
sure ranging from 100 to 300 MB but I can zoom in and see lots of detail. 
Scan images in original size as TIFF images. Hard drives are cheap. 


George Gula 

On 6/19/15 6:58 AM, "Pittsburgh-railways on behalf of DF Cramer via 
Pittsburgh-railways" <pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org on 
behalf of pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> wrote: 

>Thanks to all of you who responded to my slide scanning questions. I will 
>continue to experiment and eventually post a link to my results. I 
>purchased an Epson V550 scanner in March. My old scanner still works if I 
>use the virtual XP machine on Windows 7, but it was only a document 
>scanner. 
> 
>Dennis F. Cramer 
>http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/ 
> 
>> From: trams2 at comcast.net 
>> To: alto_trombone at hotmail.com; pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org 
>> Subject: RE: [PRCo] slide scanning 
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 20:01:39 -0400 
>> 
>> I scan slides at 4000 or 4800 ppi. 
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: Pittsburgh-railways 
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org] On Behalf Of 
>>DF 
>> Cramer via Pittsburgh-railways 
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 7:12 AM 
>> To: PRCo 
>> Subject: [PRCo] slide scanning 
>> 
>> Good morning, 
>> It has been a  while since any posts have appeared in my inbox from this 
>> list, so I have a question to get some of you typing again. I bought an 
>> Epson slide scanner and have been doing some experimenting with it. I 
>> started at 600 dpi and was not happy with any of the darker images (I 
>>had to 
>> lighten them in Photoshop Elements and they became grainy) so I went to 
>> 19000 and wow, what a difference. My question is, what dpi setting do 
>>you 
>> use? 
>> I have considered using 19000 and then cutting the file size by 50%. 
>> I am saving them in tiff format. 
>> 
>> 
>> Dennis F. Cramer 
>> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/                                              
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