Why do my slides scan less sharp...

[Bertram2]

Bertram, my color accuracy depends on the type of film, and I can "punch up" the saturation to match how I see the slide. It's the loss of definition I dislike-though there are some that look good, so it may be a variance in the mounting.

Here's an example-color corrected. (slr photo, sorry). I'll try to find one that looks good all-round later on.

It still looks a bit soft, even the staic elements of the pic but I am not sure at all if this is the scanner ? Was it really sharp on the screen ? No camera shake ?

I'd try a slide which is really and undoubtedly razor SHARP on the projection screen , scan it at full resolution (4800), NO switches set at the scanner software(USM, colour adjustment etc), resize it with PS, do all the rest (curves, colour)with PS too and the very last step is USM (160 / 0,5 / 1 is my initial setting mostly )
It should come out sharper than this one or the scanner has a prob.

I use thin glassless frames, the mounting done by the lab is poor sometimes, not plane at all, A PIA often for the projection, the scanner does not care tho, DOF seems deep enuff.

Regards,
bertram

 

[Trius]

Willie: I visited your flickr site... wow, those old K64s are quite nice, even for a flatbed scan. The Mamiya lenses did very well. In the one of the women at the bus stop, I can even tell what brand of forearm cruch the woman on the left has. In addition to the technical qualities, I really like some of the older shots as photos. Very evocative.

Earl

 

[aad]

I'm going to do just that-find a sharp slide and scan at max. I may go shopping while it does the work!

Thanks for the help, Bertram and Willie-I'll definitely update.

 

[Bertram2]

I'm going to do just that-find a sharp slide and scan at max. I may go shopping while it does the work!
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4 minutes for a slide, 155MB filesize. Good luck and let me know if it worked.

bertram

 

[TEZillman]

aad,

I posted 4 photos to my gallery that were scanned with the Minolta so you can see what they look like and also because I can now post presentable images!

 

[aad]

This is a 30 year old Kodachrome-shallow DOF but not bad... no post-processing. A print was madof this back then, and it wasn't as good as this scan, I recall.

 

[willie_901]

aad,

Now you're cooking!

willie