From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 18 1: 4:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F9037B422 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 01:04:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.100] (cs-wla2-p42.lafn.org [192.168.16.42] (may be forged)) by zoon.lafn.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f4I83xv95027; Fri, 18 May 2001 01:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bc979@mail.lafn.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <15108.52758.732889.211897@guru.mired.org> References: <200105180150.f4I1ovS17332@mail-1.catskill.net> <003601c0df57$813bc2a0$44a4a518@we.mediaone.net> <20010517222006W.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <15108.52758.732889.211897@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:01:45 -0700 To: Mike Meyer From: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: digital camera Cc: Jordan Hubbard , lsp3@gte.net, wyrdwulf@catskill.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:24 -0500 5/18/01, Mike Meyer wrote: >Jordan Hubbard types: >> Though nowhere near as easy to use as Digital cameras. You still need >> to send the film off to be developed and then you'd better have a good >> scanner if you want the resulting images to look any good. I wouldn't >> even bother with that approach - whenever we get my girlfriend's >> pictures back (she's hopelessly wedded to the analog), we just get it >> on PhotoCD as well. > >That's the ticket. For ease of use, a digital camera is unbeatable - >assuming it's supported. Take the camera home, transfer the pictures, >and you're done. For quality, using a film camera and getting it >scanned to Photo CD from the negative gets you excellent resolution, >and skips the step of going to paper first, and all the extra noise >that can entail. > > The problem with the scan to photo CD is the average 18%gray they use for the exposure. If your pictures are at all unusual lighting, they don't come out well unless you pay a bundle to have them hand reviewed. I got too frustrated with the results from that and got a Nikon Cool Scan III film scanner and do my own now. The results are much better. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message