we have some old pics on print we want to put on digi card or disc, ok so have been told that as we still have the negatives we can get it done, but where ?
all high street places wont thats for sure, also how much would we expect to pay each pic?
thanks xxx
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Sex God
If the pictures are still in good condition try scanning them saving them to a pc then storing on a digi card or disk? (I would use both methods and store them to an external hard drive as disks do tend to stop reading eventually)
Asda and such places also will put pictures on a disk for you,
If they are *personal* pictures I'm sure there is places online that do them from negatives.
Asda and such places also will put pictures on a disk for you,
If they are *personal* pictures I'm sure there is places online that do them from negatives.
Sex God
Quote by Ally_n_look
scanning does not give digital qualitly, may try it tho.
thanks xxx
I'd be intersted to know what you think 'digital quality' is?
Most digital cameras use some method of compression, so based on such factors such as chip size & quality, resolution, selected capture quality, light level and sensitivity etc you could end up with a pretty crap picture that is digital. Mobile phones have digital cameras, some of those are shite, remember those mini cameras you could get on a keyring? 300k digital resolution- total pants!
So unless you have access to a DSLR that can shoot RAW format images (and even that has the size, res, quality issue) 'Digial' don't mean diddly!
If you have a printed copy of the pictures then a 4800 dpi desktop scanner on full quality should do a solid job of making a digital copy of them.
If you have negatives but don't want to send them to be developed (which is wise, most developers have a damn good collection of duplications selected from their favourite snappy cam pics :mrgreen
have a look on Ebay for a digital negative scanner, most go for about £50 but you can drop lucky!Don't fall into the trap that digital is better, sometimes old school technology can knock it for 6
Sex God
Geek! :mrgreen:
Sex God
Geek possibly....correct definately
Sex God
Quote by Staggerlee_BB
Geek possibly....correct definately
Oh I don't dispute that... he's still a geek though! :giggle:
Quote by meat2pleaseu
If you have negatives but don't want to send them to be developed (which is wise, most developers have a damn good collection of duplications selected from their favourite snappy cam pics :mrgreen
are a bit more expensive but it will give you some idea of what to look for ;-)
Sex God
Quote by Dirtygirly
Geek possibly....correct definately
Oh I don't dispute that... he's still a geek though! :giggle:
Nothing wrong with a bit of geekyness, if it wasn't for geeks you be sat in the dark and cold, not looking at the internet on the pc you don't have or gassing on your mobile about Big Brother which you're watching on your LCD Tv
:smug:
Sex God
Quote by meat2pleaseu
Geek possibly....correct definately
Oh I don't dispute that... he's still a geek though! :giggle:
Nothing wrong with a bit of geekyness, if it wasn't for geeks you be sat in the dark and cold, not looking at the internet on the pc you don't have or gassing on your mobile about Big Brother which you're watching on your LCD Tv
:smug:
When did I say there was anything wrong with being a geek?
Sex God
Quote by evildave
scanning does not give digital qualitly, may try it tho.
thanks xxx
I'd be intersted to know what you think 'digital quality' is?
Most digital cameras use some method of compression, so based on such factors such as chip size & quality, resolution, selected capture quality, light level and sensitivity etc you could end up with a pretty crap picture that is digital. Mobile phones have digital cameras, some of those are shite, remember those mini cameras you could get on a keyring? 300k digital resolution- total pants!
So unless you have access to a DSLR that can shoot RAW format images (and even that has the size, res, quality issue) 'Digial' don't mean diddly!
If you have a printed copy of the pictures then a 4800 dpi desktop scanner on full quality should do a solid job of making a digital copy of them.
If you have negatives but don't want to send them to be developed (which is wise, most developers have a damn good collection of duplications selected from their favourite snappy cam pics :mrgreen
have a look on Ebay for a digital negative scanner, most go for about £50 but you can drop lucky!Don't fall into the trap that digital is better, sometimes old school technology can knock it for 6
4800 dpi. they cost like 100 grand.
Maybe on your planet it does, here on earth they cost, errrrm, about £65 :wink:
If you want to scan high dpi avoid jpg because it's not loss-less. got for 24bit tiff with lzw compression.
Or you could just do away with any compression at all, and the subsequant loss of data/quality, and use the Targa or TGA format which is also 24 bit but usually uncompressed. To give you an idea of the quality, this is a format frequently used for compositing in film (4k resolution)
Sexlightened
Quote by meat2pleaseu
scanning does not give digital qualitly, may try it tho.
thanks xxx
I'd be intersted to know what you think 'digital quality' is?
Most digital cameras use some method of compression, so based on such factors such as chip size & quality, resolution, selected capture quality, light level and sensitivity etc you could end up with a pretty crap picture that is digital. Mobile phones have digital cameras, some of those are shite, remember those mini cameras you could get on a keyring? 300k digital resolution- total pants!
So unless you have access to a DSLR that can shoot RAW format images (and even that has the size, res, quality issue) 'Digial' don't mean diddly!
If you have a printed copy of the pictures then a 4800 dpi desktop scanner on full quality should do a solid job of making a digital copy of them.
If you have negatives but don't want to send them to be developed (which is wise, most developers have a damn good collection of duplications selected from their favourite snappy cam pics :mrgreen
have a look on Ebay for a digital negative scanner, most go for about £50 but you can drop lucky!Don't fall into the trap that digital is better, sometimes old school technology can knock it for 6
4800 dpi. they cost like 100 grand. we have a colortrac A0 scanner at work that doesn't need to go above 600dpi for print quality, (maps, not text).
If you want to scan high dpi avoid jpg because it's not loss-less. got for 24bit tiff with lzw compression.
you get large files for anything bigger than an 8x10 but storage is cheap these days.
Sexlightened
just to point out. the 4800 dpi you speak of is the resoulion of the scanner sensor. if you tried scan full 4800 a4 on one of those cheap office scanners it would take about 3 hours.
Most scanning bureau's are set up for high volume scanning and printing. The ones that do one off photo to digital are either VERY specialised or taking advantage of the fact that you don't know better.
So as meat2pleaseu say's. one ofthose cheap flatbed scanners will do the job well enough. just crank it up to max. You can touch it up with photoshop or gimp afterwards.
Most scanning bureau's are set up for high volume scanning and printing. The ones that do one off photo to digital are either VERY specialised or taking advantage of the fact that you don't know better.
So as meat2pleaseu say's. one ofthose cheap flatbed scanners will do the job well enough. just crank it up to max. You can touch it up with photoshop or gimp afterwards.
