Historical Re-enactments

[dmr]

Yahoo!
Thanks dmr & Jan! Now, about grain and dust removal.......

You're very welcome. 🙂

Now about grain and dust removal. I don't really care that much about grain removal. Really. Grain is part of real photography, and the grain really depends on the film. When scanned at full res, my old Tri-X shots show the same kind of grain that a good lab 8x10 would. With Kodachrome, you really don't get much, grain that is. 🙂 I do like the fact that this scanner will show the grain the way it is.

One thing about grain, if you scan at a lower res and try to do a full-size print, you might get a very bizarre grain enhancement due to interference. There's lots written about it if you do a search on the web.

As for dust, this scanner doesn't have ICE. It does have the "Auto Dustbrush" which I really have not had any luck with. I've found the best thing is to watch technique and hygeine and get the negative as dust free as possible, then touch up in Photoshop. I have been doing this at max res, before sizing using a combination of the healing tool (worth the upgrade if you don't have it) and the clone tool.

 

[dadsm3]

Peter, thanks for the info.....I'll be sure to remember to remind the GTA RFF that this is happening. Maybe some of these big city guys will actually make the drive! As a matter of fact, the little Italian restaurant right next door is owned by an old friend of the family's...I'm sure he'll look after us if we need a table.
Dmr, this scanner does show a lot of grain.....my wet prints (taking photo1 course at college, my first wet work in 35 years! So much fun....and it has nothing to do with being surrounded by 20 year-old co-eds, honestly) were in fact far less grainey than anything I could do with the scanner. The negs were grainey to start....we were all supposed to use TMax100, but one girl bought 400 by accident, and since I had both I offered to develop with her (2 roll tanks). I knew we had to stop at about 6 1/2 minutes but the prof made us all keep them in the TMax developer for 7 1/2 (didn't want to make waves)...result was very contrasty and grainey negs.
Strange though, my wet prints aren't that grainey....actually I was damn proud. Since I bought both the scanner and the HP photosmart 7960 on Peter's (above) suggestion I had my brother, who's fairly advanced in PS see what he could do to match my wets with what we could get at home with my new scanner and printer. In short, he couldn't, until he scanned in colour negative and spent a couple of hours. The grain dissolvers hurt the pic, no question. He got close, but had to admit the wets looked a bit better.
But I'm pretty impressed with what you can do at home with the Minolta scanner, the HP7960 and that extra grey cartridge. Since I'm probably not going to go wet eventually (but have complete access to the college darkroom for free as long as I take courses), it's nice to know I can develop my own film in the bathroom and be scanning and printing within minutes.
Haven't had this much fun for a long time, so much to learn. We have such a long winter up here it's nice to know I've got something to look forward to when our 8 months of lousy weather start.
Regards,
Mike

 

[peterc]

Peter, thanks for the info.....I'll be sure to remember to remind the GTA RFF that this is happening. Maybe some of these big city guys will actually make the drive!

Mike, here's a list of the Ontario re-enactments this year.
May 6-7 Longwoods - London, ON
June 2-4 Battle of Stoney Creek - Stoney Creek, ON
June 10-11 Georgina Militia Muster - Sutton, ON
July 8-9 Crysler's Farm - Morrisburg, ON
July 21-23 Wasaga under Siege - Wasaga Beach, ON
July 29-30 Fort William - Thunder Bay, ON
Aug 12-13 Fort Erie - Fort Erie, ON
Sept 9-10 Backus Mill - Port Rowan, ON
Sept 23-24 Fanshawe Village - London, ON
Sept 30-Oct 1 Faire at the Forks - Chatham, ON

Peter