Re: Narrow Gauge Memories

Having worked with both film and high-end amateur digital SLR cameras (both flavors of a variety of Nikons and film Pentax), I still feel that my 25 and 64 speed transparencies gave the best image quality (for 35mm and far above even 12M digital). Too bad it's so difficult getting 35mm slide film anymore...

Unfortunately, I haven't had an opportunity to use a dedicated slide scanner to digitize my images, but any transformation from an original degrades the quality; making prints from slides vs prints from print negatives is an example. So is reducing a many megapixel digital image to a 100k or so JPEG image for web posting. (So is transferring JPEG to JPEG for that matter - TIFF is better, but bigger)

I'm not trying to start a film vs digital argument; I was simply curious about Mr West's transparency digitization methodology - I liked the technical results in addition to the images themselves.

I appreciate the suggestions - I've been meaning to get a dedicated slide scanner - I'll probably need a batch processor given the number of slides I need to digitize. If for no other reason, digital thumbnails provide a much easier means of record keeping. Seeing these results tells me it's getting on time to spend the money.

Thanks