I’ve been slowly working on scanning our Honeymoon pics from Norway. The project was going along quite well until I opened what I have scanned in Photoshop tonight to start doing some tweaking. Everything - every one of the 40+ pics I had scanned, straight from negatives, was blurry. Remember, I have a B.F.A. in Photography, and was using a Nikon camera (arguably some of the finest lenses out there). So I’m guessing my scanner is what’s turning my beautiful pics into garbage. Which isn’t surprising since it’s a 3-in-1 scanner, copier, printer.
I’d love to get access to a really high quality film scanner so I could get my entire portfolio saved digitally. I’d hate to buy something like that, since after I had all my old photo’s scanned it would be pretty useless. Meanwhile, I’m a bit frustrated with my new digital camera, a Canon Digital Rebel XT - but it’s only a minor frustration. It takes really sharp pictures and there’s plenty of manual control, which I absolutely demand out of a camera. My one pet peeve is 2 things that are inter-related so I’ll only count them as one: under low light it has a very hard time focusing. But I’m not talking darkness, I mean subdued light; maybe overcast skies; and the sensor does not seem to be as sensitive to light as I would like. In a room where an ISO 400 should handle the job, it’s telling me I need to use ISO 800.
This could be my lens - in fact, both these problems could be the lens that comes with the camera. I’m going to have to eventually invest in a straight 50mm lens. I’ve been using zoom lenses for years now on both my film camera and now the digital, and I have never been terribly happy with the quality - they tend to be a bit on the fuzzy side.
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