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Ali and co – thanks for organising such an enjoyable evening. Great to ‘see’ everyone.
Best wishes,
Russ and LynneJohn, one more post for the pot,
Like Steve, I have done a lot of scanning over the years. I have a couple of Nikon dedicated 35mm scanners, and if I lived somewhere sensible like Sheffield you would be very welcome to borrow one but that’s not the case.
Other than using a commercial service (expensive) I have one suggestion.
Do you have, or have access to, a good quality flat-bed scanner offering high res. scans? This will not produce results that match a dedicated slide scanner, but could be satisfactory for a slide show. If you follow that route, I’d recommend you drive your scanner with VueScan https://www.hamrick.com/purchase-vuescan.html. This is third party software with a USP of reverse engineering the drivers of scanners no longer supported by today’s operating systems, but is quite likely to be better and easier to use than software that comes with a modern scanner, especially for slides. For slides, you would need the professional version, available now at £60.00 (with free upgrades thereafter).
A commercial service should provide a projection / publication ready product. Sadly, that’s rarely the case if you do it yourself – a flat response is more likely, which will need corrections for colour, contrast, shadow detail etc. To some extent, you can do this on your scanner’s preview screen, but imaging software will give better results – Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop are market leaders for good reason, but require a monthly subscription these days. Apart from the expense, all such post-processing can be very time consuming.
And now I’ve thought of two more options.
If you have, or have access to, a slide projector, you could use a digital camera to photograph a projected image. Alternatively, place a slide on a lightbox (or some other ad hoc arrangement that gives an even light source), and use the macro settings on a digital camera/lens to photograph the illuminated image (camera will need to be on a tripod). No guarantees (you’d have to experiment) but I think these two options are the least expensive and most convenient ways of providing images suitable for a club slide show.
HTH
RussZoom worked very well last night. A really good app – recommended, although I can’t comment on ease of set-up as I was just one of several participants.
Laptops, large tablets perhaps, and PCs with webcams are the best hardware. Each participant’s video feed can be displayed as an individual tile on your screen so for large groups you need a large screen. I found on my small tablet (applies to a phone, too, presumably) the screen only displayed three members with the rest on different pages, so a bit fiddly. My PC has no webcam, but I logged on with it as well so its large screen displayed all tiles, while the audio and video comms. went through my tablet logon. Only other drawback was a contention issue as the number sharing the bandwidth increased – much latency and some audio drop-off.
Usually, we meet in a bar in Glasgow’s west end. Zoom provided an alternative for the times, and it was a lot of fun singing songs to each other over cyberspace. A welcome hour or two of lightness. A virtual clubroom? Yes, give it a go.
I’m trying Zoom for the first time tonight with the Glasgow Song Session crowd. I’ll report back re ease of use, any pitfalls etc.
RussHmmm, turns out I’ve joined the sick list – gone down with something overnight! Van packed up yesterday ready to go, but there’s no way I’ll be driving down the M74 today. Shame, was looking forward to the meet, in spite of the forecast. Have a good one all those still going.
Absolutely OK about paying hut fees.
Russ
I’m taking this opportunity to opt out of the communal meal, and will not be bringing fresh fruit. I made Friday’s night’s dinner yesterday and ended up with double the quantity so I might as well eat half on Saturday.
Indeed, those were the days – beer at fourpence a quart, winter sunburn, a gentle breeze blowing through my hair ……..
As a regular attendee on winter Lakes meets there’s a weary familiarity to Saturday’s forecast, so I checked my records back to 2014 to be sure. Notes on Saturday’s weather for six meets (Jan and March 2014; missed 2015) are all made up of combinations of the following: warm, wet, windy, cold, clag, soft wet snow! Hey, ho.
Purple and yellow – so looks like a rogue Dark Peak Fell Runners stunt. Original club colours combined predominantly brown (to represent peat) with green (grass), purple (heather) and yellow (sun). Just fished my old DPFR hat out and notice all colours are represented, but no green in the club strip now looking at runners on Google images. Perhaps the perpetrator didn’t want to lug a large tin of brown paint up the hill to compleat the job.
BTW, this is nothing new – I recall hearing about trig. point paint jobs in DPFR colours in the last century (no dates, no names!).
