carusoswi
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I have an Epson Perfection 2400 Photo flat bed scanner with an adapter for scanning 35 mm slides or negatives. I have always been pleased with my results. Recently, I was shooting away from home using my Minolta Maxxum 9000 and needed the pics right away, so, I had the local Walmart 1-hr do both negatives and scans to a CD.
I tweaked the CD images to use thinking that, when I got back home, I'd scan the negs to get "true quality."
To my surprise (and my eyes), after scanning only several images (I had the Epson software set to scan at a DPI setting that exceeds the scanners 2400 x 4800), the quality on the Walmart CD seems better than what I achieved with my scanner. I keep saying to myself, can this be?
I also noticed that a quick test with Photoshop shows that its presets (for 'auto adjust levels' accepts the scanned images without altering them. On most of the Walmart images, auto adjust levels makes obvious adjustments that, most of the time, improve the image to my eyes.
Can someone explain to me what might be going on? These results are contrary to my expectations. By the way, as I look at both sets of images, each set could stand as acceptable on its own - the home-scanned images aren't unacceptable at all, but, the store-scanned images definitely have more punch.
Thoughts appreciated. Thanks!
Caruso
I tweaked the CD images to use thinking that, when I got back home, I'd scan the negs to get "true quality."
To my surprise (and my eyes), after scanning only several images (I had the Epson software set to scan at a DPI setting that exceeds the scanners 2400 x 4800), the quality on the Walmart CD seems better than what I achieved with my scanner. I keep saying to myself, can this be?
I also noticed that a quick test with Photoshop shows that its presets (for 'auto adjust levels' accepts the scanned images without altering them. On most of the Walmart images, auto adjust levels makes obvious adjustments that, most of the time, improve the image to my eyes.
Can someone explain to me what might be going on? These results are contrary to my expectations. By the way, as I look at both sets of images, each set could stand as acceptable on its own - the home-scanned images aren't unacceptable at all, but, the store-scanned images definitely have more punch.
Thoughts appreciated. Thanks!
Caruso