michael_mcdonald1 Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 I have had my local lab put some of my film on CD. Some can be seen here http://www.photo.net/photodb/member-photos?include=all&user_id=989148 I know that they aren't the greatest shots but there is something I have noticed on the scanned pictures that aren't in the prints. The scanned images look pixelated. I don't know if that is the right word or not but lines are not smooth there are jagged edges. Is there a specific way to scan the film that would get rid of that? Also I have a roll of slide film I would like to have processed is there a special way I should have that scanned? The attached pic shows what I am talking about. Her neck and face look jagged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_mcdonald1 Posted September 18, 2004 Author Share Posted September 18, 2004 I just looked at that pic full size and it isn't as bad but there is still a little something on the lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan_olander1664878205 Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 The scans are probably not done at a very high resolution, and/or they may be compressing the jpegs quite a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_tuthill Posted September 19, 2004 Share Posted September 19, 2004 I agree with Les, the "jagged" neck and face are caused by JPEGartifacting. This is odd because the quality is the highestpossible, although it uses 2x1 chroma subsampling, which is apretty silly combination. The picture also looks dark becauseit doesn't fill up its histogram. Where did you get the scan?Did you edit or crop it? Doesn't look like Frontier and the sizeis wrong for Agfa d-Lab.2 or Noritsu. We can help you minimizeJPEG problems if we get some answers to those questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_mcdonald1 Posted September 19, 2004 Author Share Posted September 19, 2004 I had them scanned at my local lab. Lakeside Camera in Louisiana. It wasn't edited or cropped. I have asked one of the people that work there if there was anything they could do differently but was told I needed to talk to someone else. I don't know anything about scanning so I was hoping someone could tell me what to tell them to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_tuthill Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 Les, according to the "jpegdump" program, JPEG quality is already 100 (highest possible). I suspect it was recoded from a lower JPEG quality level, or something extra silly like that. Michael, ask the lab if they can provide TIFF scans. No reason why not -- 36 full-res scans and thumbnails will easily fit on CDR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_tuthill Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 The <B>jpegdump</B> program was written by Allan Hessenflow. C source and Win32 executable are available on the web. I've got version 1.14 -- please let me know if I should upgrade. There is another program called jpegdump that (I believe) recovers damaged digicam files, by Kurt Stege. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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