mikem1

How much light was there? The kit lenses are f5.6 at the long end, so in low light auto-focus can fail.

There is a Chinese photographer that might be who you are thinking of. His name escapes me at the moment.

Charles, You should be able to get azimuth data to go with your position from GPS :-)

It also appears that you need to set your camera's clock to UTC so that the time matches the UTC time in the tagger.

 

I also wonder whether it only works with JPEG files. They list cameras but not file formats for compatibility.

Thanks for the answers. I've used Vuescan on Linux, and was very happy with the results compared to the other choices available. I'm now using it on Windows XP and have the luxury of comparing it to the manufacturer's own software.

 

It does seem as if something is different with newer versions of Vuescan (I'm using 8.1.23). I don't recall having this much trouble with it when I used it in the past.

 

I'm primarily scanning Velvia, which tends towards magenta, but Vuescan seems to be making it more magenta. I'll try setting a neutral tone and see what happens. I thought there used to be settings for Fuji films, but maybe I'm mis-remembering.

I have a DSE 5400 and an Epson 2400 photo. When I use the

manufacturer's software the scans look reasonably close to the

original transparency, but with Vuescan I can't seem to figure out how

to get the colors right. It seems to be doing some sort of color

correction no matter how I set the controls on the Color tab. Images

with mostly green moss and foliage have a distinct magenta cast. The

worst are images like sunsets that are mostly orange sky with

silhouetted trees. No matter what I do they are nowhere close. I would

think that setting Color Balance to none would get me a scan that was

reasonably close, but that is not the case. Any ideas? At this point

I'm using the Minolta and Epson software to scan since the results

require less post-processing.

I've had the slide holder fail to feed in because on of the latches was not closed all of the way. I was able to pull it out with the power off. Maybe you can get the latch closed while it is still in the scanner?

Take a look at rangefinder cameras. You can get smaller, lighter with a wide choice of optics. Voigtlander has reasonably priced cameras and lenses, and of course there is Leica.

 

The Voigtlander Bessa R is only $249

 

http://www.cameraquest.com/voigrf.htm

Another point about weight: the battery in the A-1 doesn't weigh much, but the cameras with AF and winders probably use larger heavier batteries. Make sure you are including battery weight if you are looking at weights.

As far as I know it is a drum scan. They are a good lab and do good work (I've had 6x7 and 4x5 prints made with internegs in the past). It just seems that they are holding prices constant for things that should be seeing prices come down. THe most glaring example is the $15.00 charge to write a file to a CD.

My local custom lab charges $35 to scan a medium or large format

transparency for a 16x20 print. Their rates go by the size of the

print, presumably because they are scanning at higher resolution for

larger prints. Is this the the "usual and customary" charge for

scanning? I'm a little suspicious because they charge $15 to burn a CD

with the file. That seems a bit high given the cost of the media and

drives.