Home Scan
Original Image
Edited Image
Original Image
The photo above, is shot with
a Mamiya/Sekor 500TL and a Tamrom 400 mm lens. And Edited with
Paint Shop Pro.
The upper photo scan, is done by a Minolta "Home scanner" for
film. After scanning, the photos was burned to a CD record and
stored in Tiff- format. Before using the image, it was slightly
edited in PSP. Just to remove some dots made by dust on the film.
The other scan, was done by a professional lab. And the order was placed when I dropped in at a local photo store to pick the processed photos. I told them that I wanted high resolution and quality, put on CD record. File size about 25 - 30 Mb.
The photos I got back had lower
resolution and was in file format = JPEG!
This was way out of line from what I had expected. The quality was
various. Some was ok, some was bad. and the price was
high. almost 12 NOK / photo, total of 265. ( $ 1,5
USD / photo, total 31,5 USD ).
I was told when I ordered that it would cost 96 NOK, but later they
told me that 96 was for the CD record only!! Hey man! I can
get records at the computer store for almost 1/10 of that price!
OK, this was what I did to that
photo to put it on this page:
First I loaded it from the CD into the PSP program and saved it as a TIFF
file.
Than I started removing the "noise" using different filters and
functions in PSP.
After that, I adjusted the contrast and lightness and resized the photo.
Than I saved the edit under a different name and compressed it to JPEG
again. and saved it to disk:
Now I closed the edit and reloaded the first one to resize and make it a
JPEG again. and saved it once more.
The rest is history.
My conclusion is:
If you got the plan to digitalize your films do not make them as
JPEG files.
If you plan to let professionals do it: Make sure they
know what to do and how to do it.
Make sure to make the images as TIFF files or in Kodak Photo format.
If they should try to enhance the images in JPEG format. You can be
sure that they will get worse each time they are saved.
