 Romen Vargas |
Need Help With Scanning I send them to Rabbit Photo (for anyone in Aus) and they have a film scanner. I pay like $10 (about $6 US) to get the film scanned and the images put onto CD as a JPEG. The JPEG is a 500ish dpi image of the neg. I get them back and they look way different from the print (that I get from somewhere else). The colour saturation is different, the contrast is different, etc. To illustrate the difference I included 2 winners from onlinephotocontest and 2 of my images (I wish I could post what my prints look like but I have a crappy 8 bit scanner ;p) hope someone can help out here. (I hope it still comes out okay with the 300 pixel wide limit)
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Ken Pang |
Hi Romen, it seems like nobody is getting any photos up on the site :( Anyway, the simplest solution is to go to another place. Anywhere which charges only $10 per roll, which includes the CD, is obviously not paying any attention to the quality. It costs about AUD$2 for a CD anyway. They probably just have a neg scanner that has a script to automatically burn, and the scanner isn't set up correctly for contrast and brightness. The place I go to in Double Bay (Sydney) charges $10 per frame! ($360 per roll for a 36 exposure!) But the image quality is perfect, they save in TIFF format to ensure no compression artefacts. There is also never any dust on the image - ever. Also, they scan to a much higher resolution so I can use them for anything. A typical image comes out about 75Mb. They also set the image a touch lighter than necessary on screen so that it prints properly on my printer. How's that for service? :) I'm starting to do more of my own work, especially for the easy stuff, but I've gone to them for a while and they have never let me down. I think their name is deja image or something.
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Romen Vargas |
Thanks for the tip Kenneth...I'll check em out right away...but yeah pity the pic uploads didn't work else you coulda seen the quality of the scans. Thanks again!
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Ken D. Brown |
Well there is one way that might fix this. You can download a photo edit program and adjust the contrast,color, ect to get great colors and photos. It'll take a little practice, and I'm sure you can figure this one out Best Ken
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