[photo-3d] Re: Making quality copies of Realist slides

["Dr. George A. Themelis" <drt-3d@xxxxxxx>]

I am sorry I cannot answer your questions but I am
forwarding your message to the photo-3d list and 
someone might be able to help you there.

Thank you,

George Themelis


At 05:20 PM 1/31/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I saw your website and wondered if you can give me any direction.  I have
>some Realist format slides from the late 1950s that I want to copy.  I want
>the copies to be as close in quality to the original as possible.  Two
>questions:
>
>1) Does one get better quality copies by simply making copies mechanically?
>-- that is, using a low asa copy film and copying rig?  versus making a high
>resolutions scan of the original and outputting it as a new slide?
>
>2) Some of our slides have blemishes.  I am comfortable with using Photoshop
>to clean up scanned images and I could eliminate the blemishes that way.  I
>am aware there are different levels of resolution in scanners and I could
>pay a lot to get a very high resolution scan.  Do you know what level of
>scanning I need to use to capture all of the halides on the original slide
>(Kokachrome II) beyond which it makes no sense to pay more?  Again my goal
>is to then have the files output by a lab as new slides that are as close in
>quality to the original as possible.
>
>Thank you for any help you can give me.
>
>Duncan Knowles
>dknowles@xxxxxxxxxxx
>