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| Originally Posted by [b Quote[/b] (peter k @ Aug. 30 2003,14:52)]Hi John,
Those last two are crystal clear!!!
When you say you had the lab put them onto CD for you, Is that one of your retired from work labs(i.e. scientific with all the toys and gizmos) or just a normal 'photo lab(i.e. Prontaprint)? Just I thought they could only put pictures onto CD's that came from digital cameras.
I think I'll get one of the close-up lenses soon as well. The only thing I'm thinking about with that is, Does the viewfinder still lock over the top of it as trying to clamber back on a boat with the big grey thing flopping about is a recipe for it to get broken.
Thanks John, I'm still new to computers as well as U/W 'photos, so you'll need to bear with my probably daft questions.
Peter |
Not daft questions at all, Peter. I was new to all this as well not long ago. I'm still very much a beginner but trying to get the best possible pics with my MX5 as I can't afford a proper u/w housing, good camera and strobes, nor do I have the patience to be a good photographer. I just want reasonably decent snaps as souvenirs of my trips and to mail to friends.
Now to your questions:
Any photolab should be able to put your pics onto a CD. They can do it from ordinary film just as easily as from a digital camera. They have special scanners for the purpose. The price varies a lot, though, at least here in Sweden, so shop around. Personally, I don't bother with prints any more, just have all my pics put straight on a CD - they can usually put several films on the same CD – then save the best ones on my computer, manipulate them to make them as good as I can – I haven't yet learnt to use all the features of the programme, so just remove any back-scatter and crop the pictures so that the subject takes up most of the space. When I want to view them or show them to others, I use the slide show feature of the programme, so that each picture is displayed for, say, 10 seconds. I show the high resolution pics, of course. It doesn't take many minutes to manipulate an image but I manipulate both versions of each (high and low resolution) so it does take an hour or two to manipulate, say, 30 images x 2.
The close-up lens and mask has a hole in the corner, so that you can attach it permanently to the camera (e.g. where the lanyard attaches) with a short piece of strong string. I just remove it from the camera lens and let it dangle. It doesn't interfere with the viewfinder, which still locks in place as usual, and it fits neatly into the camera case, which I carry clipped to a D-ring on my TP II.
I hope this helps.