Scanning Slides and Negatives

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On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Colin Law wrote:

>> I used a similar type of system to digitize my old 8mm movies and while
>> acceptable there is a noticable loss of quality.  doing a optical copy
>> adds another step to the process and there is always some loss whenever a
>> copy is made, digital to digital is by far the least effected by this but
>> any optical process has a significant loss.
>>
>> BTW Vuescan and the Nikon scanner will do RAW or Jpg as well as a couple
>> other formats such as TIFF.
>
> Are you suggesting they do not use an optical process?
>

a different and more direct process  but no the only way to scan a slide 
is optically the difference is a camera is not designed as a direct 
scanner and loses more thru the lense system than a direct LED scanner 
like the Nikon.

Bob




> Colin
>
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>> Bob
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>> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Norman Silverstone wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:45:46 +0000
>>> From: Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org>
>>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>> Subject: Re: Scanning Slides and Negatives
>>>
>>> I spent a lot of time, a couple of years ago, going into this question
>>> and, in the end, decided to spend my money on buying an attachment for
>>> my digital camera. Thus I can copy 35 mm negatives and positives as RAW
>>> or JPEG and process them with GIMP using Ubuntu without any hardware or
>>> software worries.
>>>
>>> Norman
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