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Hi, John,
Your points are completely relevant. My professional life
partly involved the creation of historical archives here in Scotland both as
photographer and archivist. Needless to say this preceded the advent of digital
photography and the media used was film - about 50% transparency and 50%
negatives. The total archive exceeded 25,000 of each items in both formats and
generally necessitated a close supervision of all processes from beginning to
end.
Currently I have embarked upon a program of digitising my
own private collection of transparencies acquired over many years of climbing in
Scotland and also including a huge collection of ancient historical and
prehistoric artefacts extant in this part of the world. Thus my interest in this
list.
My point to the list, therefore, is quite simply that no
particular facet of the photographic process can be treated in isolation from
any other and that consigning an image to film should be performed with several
subsequent processes in mind - not the least important being the final
scan.
Many thanks for your interesting mail.
Mike
While this list is primarily about "scanning" the topics I've archived here over the last few years have ranged widely. The main interest has always been on hardware; comparing specs and new models etc. But it has also included processes, software, media types and content. It really is all part of the picture so long as it doesn't stray so far from the topic to be relevant. As a photographer and a designer utilizing scanning in commercial production, all aspects of the field have merit. For instance, I used to think that pros shot chrome and hacks shot negs. Now years later I'm shooting 90% negs. It makes more sense for my current applications (industrial & architecture) and both the films and the scanners (and software) have improved vastly. Lighting sources, content and film types all are factors in producing suitable scans, manipulating the resulting files and outputting them for the web, or in offset printing, dyesub prints and/or imagesetters. I believe that elements of all these steps are valid topics for discussion on this list. This list has always been rich with both information and opinions, both of which have for me anyway been valuable. It's great to see more people contributing rather than the same 3 or 4. At the same time, my only beef with the list is the contributions with nothing to add like "I agree" and "thanks Bob", perhaps those could be made directly instead of replied to whole list (I get enough mail already thanks.) John Lacy Creative Director/Photographer Real Smart MarketingLLC www.proshooter.com |
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