As one who has scanned about 300 50 year old plus slides, I can safely say the problem is 99% likely to be dust on the slides. The only choice is to clone it out, or consider it "art".
Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rebekah Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:37 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Scanning woes Well, I have a bunch of slides, so I went to a local business to have some scanned there, but I only had three scanned to test the quality. Well, here's a sample (reduced in size) of their work http://picasaweb.google.com/rg2pdml/Album23/photo?authkey=C57yacUEV7A#515130 5363993242258 - and I have to say, I'm extremely disappointed. There's dust everywhere! And when I mentioned it to them, the woman I spoke to claimed that there was dust developed into my slides. Well, a quick look confirmed that there's no dust developed 'into' my slides, so the dust was obviously in their scanner. So, here's my question, because I don't own a scanner so I don't know what to expect: Does this look as bad as I think, or is the dust on there a normal, acceptable thing?? rg2 -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
