From: Art Kerbs (akerbs@andresimaging.com)
Date: 04/11/00-03:24:00 PM Z
Hi Mats, how are you doing??
Dear Sil, We have a DS drum (100k++) and a Sitex flat bed (40k++) high end
Macs and Barco monitors and we have know problems with color negs.
but much less than that equipment forget about it, farm you negs out for a
high end scan to media.
Art Kerbs
-----Original Message-----
From: Mats Broberg [SMTP:mbroberg@swipnet.se]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 4:02 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
Subject: Re: colour neg scan
Sil Horwitz wrote:
> >
> >Do you know what the resolution is? Also, I don't believe that this
scanner
> >will work with a Mac.
>
> Highest resolution is 2400 ppi. As it is a SCSI device, should be no
> problem with a Mac. It's more trouble setting it up with a PC, though
they
> supply a small SCSI board for that.
Beware of using desktop scanners for colour work if you aim for
high-quality output. Despite the fact that scanners are getting
increasingly affordable and capable, high-quality digital recording of
colour negs or transparencies should still be made by using commercial
drum scanners at a printing plant or service bureau. What you gain is
Dmax and the number of bits per colour. The difference in quality is big.
The best results I have obtained when working with colour negs is to
have a really really good darkroom person with perfect colour vision
make large format colour prints of the negs and then scan the colour
prints on a drum scanner. Scanning the negs is tricky, since it is quite
difficult to get good colours when you reverse the image. The people on
the images usually look as if they have just crossed Styx!
Mats Broberg
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