[filmscanners] Re: A tip please / 35mm slide scanner

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Your travels sound like great fun and make me evnvious!

The Primetime scanner is not a top of the line model, but it should
serve your needs as stated.  What you are experiencing is not "normal",
and either is a result of a defective model, misinstalled drivers or
more likely inexperience with color management.

I am not trying to be "smart" here.  Color management is tricky and
learning scanning software is as well.  Also, if your viewing computer
is a laptop, with a LCD screen, it is even harder to cope with.

All I am suggesting is that the Primetime scanner models, when working
properly and used as designed should provide you with the quality you
require for your application.

Art

Richard Desomme wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Sorry for my approximate English, I do my best. ;-)
> A tip please, thank you !
>
> We travel around the planet since 10 years on board our expedition vehicle.
> As amateur photograph  I have now a lot of  slides.
> Our friends pushes us to build a web site .
>
> Buy a slide scanner  ?
> I don't need a scanner that would give me "backups" , I just need a slide
> scanner that could give me  "good colors"  together  with low "weight"
> scanning .
> What do I need for the web ? 50 to 80 K  photos??
>  And for a slide show ?? 200 K each ??
>
> We are in San Diego (West coast, USA) for the moment, and I bought a Pacific
> 35 mm slide scanner ( 290 $ , looks like the Nikon ) ....I was surprised by
> the bad result.
> My beautiful Ethiopian ladies had a violet (!) complexion :-(
> and the scans were impossible to transform under Photoshop,... too blue.
> Someone told me to buy an Epson flatbed ( less then 100  $ ), saying it 's
> the right material for what I need ( and compatible with our Macintoshes )
> I work with a titanium Macintosh G4 and Ibook. ( Firewire/USB )
>
> Can anyone give a tip ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Richard Desomme.
>
>
>


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