The Classic View of Yosemite Valley - 1988

Hank Waxman, on January 14, 2008, said:

This must be one of the most photographed views in Yosemite National Park. I chose it to test the scanning of old slides; why test on anything less than the best. This is a 4000 dpi scan of a 20-year-old slide.

♫ Swissmay, on January 14, 2008, said:

The photo is beautiful and the scan succeeded very well, Hank! This scenery looks great too! May

Richard Ryer, on January 14, 2008, said:

Greetings Hank, Beautiful

Cheers,

Rich

© Tom Lussier, on January 14, 2008, said:

Looks like the 4000 dpi is doing the trick Hank. Any post processing you find you have to do to these? Or is this straight from the scanner? Really like the haze in this shot. Tom

Hank Waxman, on January 14, 2008, said:

Yes Tom the 4000 dpi scan makes for a big image. I actually made a 20"x30" print from this digitized image which came out well. On that enlargement I did some work to reduce what I felt was graininess using the "Noise" rediction and "Smooth" options in Paint Shop Pro.

Thanks for the compliment Rich and May. I've had some trouble finding the time to go through the old scans to pick out the ones I wanted to post first; and remember, 20 years ago was before I was keeping track on my precise locations. It takes time.

Thanks to you all again. This has been fun. Cheers!

Hank

Yank in Dixie, on January 15, 2008, said:

Nice shot Hank. This shot of Yosemite Valley shows why it is one of the most photographed places in the Park! It looks like the scan came out well for you. It will be nice to see what you pull out of your slide archives! Bruce

Hank Waxman, on January 15, 2008, said:

Thanks Bruce. It was with that same thought that I started digging. It's not just a quest for scenery; I'm going to use one of the on-line services to create albums from all the years of slides I took. Cheers,

Hank

Matthew Walters, on January 15, 2008, said:

Nice shot, Hank. The scan has worked well - it must be great fun looking at all your old slides!

Hank Waxman, on January 15, 2008, said:

Greetings Matthew. It certainly has been fun, especially the concept of making the family album. My kids have commented that they could never pull out the slide projector and review where we had been. They voiced a preference for albums, and I frankly hadn't thought about it.

It's gonna be a long project; probably multi-volume.

Cheers,

Hank

Matteo Pagliaro, on January 23, 2008, said:

Slide projector should increase viewing performance of such a very very great shot, Hank. I have the same problem with my approx.6000 slides of 20 years of shots and I don't yet know how to begin to handle them. Seems instead you are on the right way!

Greetings from Italy. Matteo.

Hank Waxman, on January 23, 2008, said:

Greetings Matteo, and thanks for your compliment on this photo. After trying myself, on various scanners, and even considering the expense for a top-of-the-line-model, I decided to try outside services. I have been very happy with the results, as you can see from the limited selection I've posted so far.

They scan at 2000 and 4000 dpi, and offer various correction options too. In the end I decided to go with the corrected 4000 dpi because it saved me a lot of post scanning work.

It cost me about USD $.60 (60 cents) each so you're looking at an investment. Since my goal was to give my kids albums of their growing up years, I decided to proceed. I'm happy to provide the name and contact info.

BTW, these four shots were the ones they did for free as a test to show me what the could do. That impressed me. I like no risk options.

Hank

Matteo Pagliaro, on January 23, 2008, said:

Excuse me, Hank. I've just remembered a scan of Marco De Candido. You can see it here. Marco's scanning system is what I'd like to learn.

Ciao. Matteo.

Hank Waxman, on January 23, 2008, said:

Hi Matteo. Marco has a beautiful example of what can be done, and he has certainly done a lot of work on the image. Not all of the 3000 slides I scanned justify that much work, as many of them are of my children or friends, and they are unlikely to ever be blown up beyond 5"x7" anyway.

I'm being practical because, as I said, mt goal is to make albums for my kids which will include far many more pictures than I would select for Panoramio or even a display of my work.

Good luck in your efforts.

Hank

Matteo Pagliaro, on January 23, 2008, said:

Thank you, Hank. You made clear your situation, and I agree with you. Greetings. M.

josé carlos farina, on June 5, said:

is beautiful MUI BONITO FARINA

Hank Waxman, on June 5, said:

Thank you jose carlos. I appreciate your comments.

Hank

LutzP, on July 22, said:

Hi Hank, browsing your remarkable collecting brings back some wonderful memories of my time in the southwest. As to your conversation regarding the slides, I finally decided to do it the hard way and scan myself with my by far not top of the line Canoscan 3200F, giving me 2400 dpi max. As of today 6.000+ slides from 4 decades are on my HD and I am more than happy for the opportunity to revisit all the places after so many years. I think, your assessment is completely right, nobody will ever look at our slides again. This is the right way to do it! BTW another 10.000 slides ended up in the bin. My main problem were the glassed frames from the early years. Took a while until I had my workflow straight.

Regards, Lutz

Hank Waxman, on July 22, said:

You are to be congratulated, Lutz. Six thousand slides is a lot of scanning and adjusting, assuming you did all the tweaking. My hat's off to you. I hope we can look forward to seeing a representative sampling on Panoramio.

Best regards,

Hank

LutzP, on July 22, said:

:-))

Those which have been uploaded are tagged Scanned Slide. Many of the remaining 5.800+ will need further treatment, and I guess some of them will finally end up in the bin as well, because even intensive care will in vain. Regards from Germany, Lutz

Hank Waxman, on July 22, said:

I understand completely. I found that many were not of suitable subject matter for Panormaio either. That held many of them back.

Hank