Re: filmscanners: scanning automation

["Tom Scales" <tscales@attglobal.net>]

Tomasz,

You can accomplish that, or pretty close, with Vuescan, the Nikon LS-4000
and the roll film adapter.  I still do a little cleanup on each picture, but
very little, especially if I turn on ICE.  The way I do it is scan at
4000dpi and let Vuescan down sample and convert to JPG at 7x downsample and
95%.  This results in a 851x564 image and about 230K.  Much better quality
than you need, so once I do a little touchup, I save them at about 80K.

I shoot a lot of film of my kids playing sports and this lets me build team
webpages very quickly.

Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tomasz Zakrzewski" <tomzakrz@ka.onet.pl>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 6:34 PM
Subject: filmscanners: scanning automation


> I wonder if with any of the 4000dpi scanners I would be able to scan the
> whole roll of film and "tell" the scanning software to automatically
adjust
> color correction, contrast, sharpen to a desired degree and save the files
> in desired resolution, ie 500x800 pixels and name the files as I require.
> Is it possible at all?
> I have no need for a digital camera but sometimes it's necessary for me to
> prepare a set of 50-100 pictures for the web use and it takes a lot of
time
> to scan the prints on the flatbed. I would also use this function to make
> indexprints from my negs.
> This ability would weight on my choice of a 4000dpi filmscanner.
>
> Regards
>
> Tomasz Zakrzewski
>