Month: December 2012

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Plustek Opticfilm 8200i Problems

Scanning issues remain. Will update soon.

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I’m having strange issue with my Plustek Opticfilm 8200i (with Silverfast 8.0.1r18).

If I scan the image in 2400dpi I get the exact image which looks like the image in Prescan, so all is well, the quality looks great. But should I up the resolution to 3600, the image becomes dark and usually results unusable image. Oddly sometimes 7200dpi is fine.

Whatever I do I can’t get the resulting image that’s written to disk match the image I’m seeing in Pre-scan in 3600dpi.

I wonder if I’m missing some key element here; I’m using NegaFix and 48-24bit setting and nothing fancy. I usually don’t even use Auto CCR. If you have a similar issue, would you let me know?

 

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Visit in Finland

Visiting Finland was in many ways a kind of emotional trip for me. I met my grandma who is approaching her 90’s. Her condition has been up and down lately, and she is now living in a care house in Kiuruvesi. I also visited my birth place, the old house where I was born some 34 years ago, before I was adopted.

I took a lot of photos during my travel and as I get the negatives properly scanned, I will share the photos here and in my Flickr. One of the photos however was above others, it is the only photo that’s in the front page now, the photo of Sanni, my grandma.

I realized, once again how taking photos of something really important is actually kind of self-measuring your level of maturity.

During my visit in Finland I caught this terrible fever which then turned into a nasty tonsil infection that totally knocked me off my feet for the last weeks. I’m however getting better now and getting ready to return back to this world. I will be uploading more photos now that I’m in better health.