The Scanning Begins
Monday, July 14, 2008 at 08:11PM
Owen Long

I've picked up the equipment I need, and Sara Cooper, my assistant, has begun scanning. (Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED Film Scanner and 2 2 terrabyte Western Digital NAS drives for storage and backup.)

We started with color slides, and quickly found that 4000 dpi captures too much information. Clean slides suddenly become encrusted with dust and hairs. 3000 dpi captures the image nicely and looks past the flaws.

Here are a few of the first images.


Silenced Sign


Twin Towers Sunset


Lawnscape

Vent Migration


Puddles

Update on Monday, July 14, 2008 at 10:55PM by Registered CommenterOwen Long

I'm still getting used to the backend options for this site. It's been a joy to configure up till I tried formatting the location of the images.

Two days of scaning and we're averaging about 3 scans per hour, but getting faster as we get used to the Nikon Scan software.

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