 Marilou Olejniczak |
film directly to cd Has any one taken 35mm film and put it on cd instead of printing it right away? If so is it worth it?
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Joyce S. Bowley |
There are quality labs out there who will process your film and put the image on CD without prints. I've done this with three rolls of film. Only you can be the judge of whether it is 'worth it.' Are you just wanting digital images to upload to your gallery and/or the contest here at BP? Are you a tactile person who likes to hold a print and see the image on paper? It all comes down to what YOU want and how you archive and use your prints.
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Marilou Olejniczak |
Well, I got a Canon EOS Rebel K2 and was worried about scanning and uploading to my gallery and the contest. I guess what I'll do is just give it a try. Thanks for your response.
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doug Nelson |
Be sure that the store returns fully processed negatives to you as well as the CD. There is a process that gives only partial fixing, just enough so that the negs can be scanned, then they are no longer usable. Keep your negatives in file pages made for that purpose, label, and file them to serve as a true archive. Also, I have seen some poorly done CD's from a few stores. The scans can have a gritty look from oversharpening, or can be of too low resolution to print any bigger than maybe a 5 x 7. If you shoot negative film, consider buying a film scanner of your own. Slides are somewhat harder to scan, but that's a different subject.
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Marilou Olejniczak |
Thanks Doug. I will make sure they also give the negatives as well. I do have digital cameras but still like the concept of a film camera, in some situations I think they still do better than a digital. Negative film would be just the regular 35mm film that is bought to put in a 35mm camera? I just want to make sure I am on the same page as what your saying, kind of a stupid question I guess. I have a HP 1315v printer/scanner/copier would I have to do all kinds of work to the film photo's before uploading? Or could I just scan from print and get a decent scanned copy to use for upload? Thanks again.
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doug Nelson |
What you have is a flatbed scanner. Many people are pleased with a scan of a print from a good flatbed. Scanning is a two step process for most of us. Scan first to get a good quality, high resolution file you can archive to be able to print it later. The second step is to downsize it so that it is easily sent, but still keeps color and structural integrity. When I scan a print with a flatbed, I scan at 300 pixels per inch if I want the resulting print I make later to be the same size as the original. If I want it twice as big, I'd scan at 600 ppi. If you save that file to CD, you can have it later for printing. To post it here at betterphoto, you have to downsize it so that servers and such can handle it. Go into Image/Image Size in Photoshop or in Elements, turn Resample ON, turn Constrain Proportions ON and enter 72 ppi as the resolution, and enter 750 pixels across if a horizontal, 600 pixels high if a vertical. The other dimension (the height of your horizontal and the width of your vertical) will be automatically figured for you. SAVE AS a jpeg image. When the imaging program asks you what quality you want, tell it a 10. An image processed in this way seems to work well with the betterphoto upload system.
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Marilou Olejniczak |
Thanks Doug for all your help! Now I just have to finish a roll of film to give a try. Thanks again!
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