Recent content by PhilBurton

I'd rather fix the dusts and spots in Photoshop. All my slides have always been stored in their original boxes, except for some in custom design slide storage cabinets. Not all slides need to be spotless to be important.

@Jeremy Greenaway Speaking as a PC user overall, I concur. I'm still running Win on all the systems in my house. I will probably upgrade to Win 12 directly. I did a trial install of Win 11 and all I experienced was unnecessary changes in the UI. As for laptops,they are built for the "sweet...

I have a filmstrip holder for my Nikon scanner. I do have some film from many years ago that I have not yet processed, but the vast bulk of film was processed and put into envelopes years ago. I do need to keep slides mounted, because I have a 50-slide batch feeder, which is key to overall...

Anyone have a modern Kinetronics cleaner. How well does it work?

Still useable? Any maintenance parts like replacement brush?

What are the BEST tools for removing dust and spots pre-scan? Which tools don't work as well? Related question, what are the best tools or or workflow to use in the latest, AI-based version of Photoshop, and maybe Lightroom, for dust and spot removal? Do you remove dust and spots early or...

Uh, no kidding. Of course, someone like me can overcomplicate things without any outside help. 😎 Yup. With a 50-slide batch feeder and a 6-frame film feeder. Easy to do in Lightroom. Where I do all my digital photo post work. Which is probably fine for family photos. Remember that...

Frames. Estimates only right now.

@Les Sarile Thanks for this detailed workup. I recently bought a Kaiser light table, so I can cull the obvious duds right away. I think that for slides, at least half are duds/duplicates. Viewing the slides on a light table will take a few minutes, but it will ensure that slides are in the...

Ha. He has two small children, a busy job, and he lives 900 miles away from me.

I have Photoshop as part of my Adobe Photographer's plan, which is mainly to get Lightroom. What is wrong with Photoshop: 1. Very complex 2. Big learning curve 3. more than one way to achieve a desired outcome. 4. Need to work on a COPY of the original image, since Photoshop alters the image...

Of course not. But they both want copies of all the family photos, particularly my son. All my scans will be keyworded and dated as best as possible since I often don't know the exact date, only an approximate date. Many of those negatives are railroad subjects. Railroads are a hobby...

There is no way that I would have the time for manual inversion of so many photos. Which is why I started this thread in the first place. And given the need to cull post-scanning, and the overall importtance of getting optimal color balance, I would hope that relatively few negatives would...

Absolutely, if any of the AI-based features in Lightroom are any indication. The issue is the cost of "training," especially with the variety of color neg films. For B&W, it would be nice is the AI could automatically select the "paper grade" for the inversion. But such features are progably...

I think you mean the scanning software.. So if I already own Silverfast and use that successfully for slides, then it becomes an issue of whether Silverfast or Vuescan does a better job of inverting color or B&W negatives. I don't mean to sound like I don't care about money, but if I did need...