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Could my toad 2012-09-12 08:11:59 PM pls be envotinated? Thanks!

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Here: http://www.fourcornerstore.com/collections/frontpage/products/soviet-rumble-x-z-e-r-o

Actually that site might have a number of things you could use, although there’s some stuff there that they already have.

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There can be only one.

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Did you do anything specific to tweak the color of the backlight on the tablet?

It’s running a flashlight app so it’s more or less white. I batch converted the results to BW so there were no color artifacts, though.

FYI, the link that is your setup goes to a Yahoo signin page

Fixed, but there’s not much more to see there.

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Hey sleeping–just FYI, your b/w lake shot was apparently used in Happy Anniversary 7

Doh! I didn’t check that one because I thought it was recent enough that I would have remembered using it. Obviously not.

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sleeping; your IR shot is awesome, I’m sure you want it envotenated?

Thanks! And yes, please

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How easy it would be to get them scanned is going to depend on the format. 120 and 35mm are pretty easy, but if it’s some other size film holders can be an issue. A professional lab with a drum scanner can fluid-mount any size film, but that is seriously expensive – I’d only do that if you want to make big high quality prints from them.

As a first step, you can get some idea what they look like is to hold them up to a light source (window etc) and photograph them (film won’t scan or photograph properly unless it’s backlit). Invert the results and you can get something like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/7546348698/in/photostream

If you can get your hands on a lightbox, you could use that to photograph them too – I’m working on rigging up something like that to deal with a box of individually cut 6×7 120 negatives. Getting them in and out of the film holders for my scanner is going to be a chore and I have a lot to go through…

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Standard pitch is 0.75 (except on some tiny or huge ones): http://www.schneideroptics.com/info/faq/bw.htm#q31

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Also, a tip for Flickr users: The image ID code from the main photo page URL is the same as the first part of the actual image filename, which is useful for searching on this page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/5651000805 -> 5651000805_32f2bce9e8_o.jpg

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Awesome!

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Would a flat list of filenames be feasible? That way you could Ctrl-F to search against an existing file you were checking

So no thumbs, just a list of file names?

That’s what I was thinking – if you added thumbs you’d probably need to split it into separate pages? One long list seemed like the best idea to me, but that’s just IMO….

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It would be a pretty easy change. How would y’all like to see it? As a tooltip? As caption text in the “Sorted by Post Time” tab? Other suggestions?

Would a flat list of filenames be feasible? That way you could Ctrl-F to search against an existing file you were checking

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Whereas this photo taken in the same location is more on target:

Hmm, really? To me, that’s more of a portrait of leaves than a miniature landscape (I was thinking more along these lines: http://www.flickr.com/photos/awrose/1500655916/in/set-72157602295243363).

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Partly it depends on the content of the file itself – the more fine detail there is in an image, the less it can be compressed. Things like foliage and fine detail in feathers will make the file size larger no matter what.

Also, as well as the image data itself, JPEGs can contain quite a lot of other metadata (camera settings etc). If you use a method that discards that data (e.g. “save for web” in photoshop) it can make the file smaller too.

If you don’t have PS, there’s a very decent alternative “save for web” program called RIOT: http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/ It’s available as a plugin for some other image editors (GIMP, irfanview) too

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I’ve only scanned a couple, but if you have a large format film flatbed scanner available that will scan them pretty much like normal film – the only catch is a 4×5 film scanner will only scan *most* of a half plate negative, not the whole thing (they’re more like 5×6).

Otherwise, the easiest thing to do might be to photograph them on a light table and invert the results. If they’re consistent in size, you could probably rig up some kind of mask to put them in a consistent place. A copy stand would make aligning things easier, but a tripod can work for that sort of thing too….

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