> On Aug 14, 2016, at 2:54 AM, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks all for the recommendations - and Anthony Farr via Facebook! > > I will do some more research. > > One option is that I have a Mac PowerBook 1400 in the attic - could be > time to fire her up........
Wow, now that's an amusing antique. Brings back memories: The PowerBook 1400 was the last laptop I worked on at Apple before leaving for Sun Micro in 1997. I think I finally ditched mine a few years ago. Given the fact that I now shoot film on a very limited basis and modern digital cameras with 35mm-sized 24Mpixel sensors are easily available, I've taken to 'scanning' 35mm film with setups like the Leica SL or M-P using a Spiratone Vario-Dupliscope fitted with a mount adapter for a few frames here and there. The quality it produces is remarkably good: this photo of my grandfather was made from an ancient, heavily damaged, incorrectly exposed and processed negative I found in a batch of old negs from my father's and uncle's youth: https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8565/28944922876_3ae2f47625_o.jpg To process it, I used a customized camera calibration profile to do the basic inversion and gamma correction on the DNG capture, saved that as a TIFF file, and then edited the TIFF to this state. It was fun, and fun to see my grandfather as a youngish man again. (He died in 1970 at age 72, so would be about age 53 in this photo.) enjoy, G — The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. -- 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.
