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[polarbeardiggers]

just picked up a used nikon f70d slr camera,love the speed at which it handles,used my first roll yesterday dx coded 400 iso,on aperature prioty,with the aperature manually set at f4.3 and all my shots are handheld,now i brought my film in to get developed and transferred to cd so i can upload on the computer,is it true when the film gets processed and transferred to cd that you really lose out on pixel rates, i thought that a 35mm image on a digital cd and only having a 800kb rate level is quite small,considering my sensor in my nikon d50 produces image file sizes of 2-3 mb size files.here are two shots on on the cd as it looks on print,the second is tweaked abit from software,


should i be trying more manual settings on the camera ,and changing my dx code on the camera to manually change the iso to more lower iso's,the camera can manually go to 25-5000 setable iso,as long as the dx code portion is turned off, any recomendation to a novice here,from past kodak point and shoot era.

[danic]

Wow, another film user

The options set at the scanner will determine what size your file is. I always scan my negatives in TIFF format at 6x4 size, which results in a 12mb file and then I convert it to a usable format in PS to do my adjustments. I'd say you'll have to look at the options set on your scanner. If you get the scanning done at the local lab, then I'd say buy your own scanner.

As for manually adjusting ISO, I'm guessing you are using C41 film? It's probably not worth while, but you can give it a go if you want. I shot a roll of 400ASA film at 800, and didn't notice anything different in my exposures. They looked fine.

If you do shoot B&W, then you can adjust ASA to suit your style, but that's a whole different kettle of fish.

Good photo's too

[polarbeardiggers]

thanks,the film i'm using is kodak dx 400,but when you load it into the camera you need to tell the camera what film you have, you can manually set the camera to adjust at 25 iso or to 5000 iso,or you set to dx code and it will then read your film as 400,as what i purchased,i'm just wondering if i could trick the camera to thinking i have a lower iso in it,will there be a difference,i don't have a scanner,just got the store to make a print copy and to make a cd copy for me to transfer to computer,but really disappointed on the transferred copies to disc,the file sizes are so small.also when you shoot do you primarily use manual or aperature priorty modes,?.

[Xia_Ke]

Congrats on the camera :thumbsup: I wouldn't go playing with your ISO settings until you get more comfortable with your camera/film combo. At that point you can change the settings to fine tune exposure. Check with your lab to see what resolution they are actually scanning at. They might scan at a higher resolution upon request. If you plan on shooting a lot of film, I would just invest in your own scanner or find a good lab. I'm with danic that I always scan my files as a TIFF. My 6x6 B&W images are scanned at 2400dpi and as 16-bit TIFF's which makes for 70mb+ file.

[polarbeardiggers]

ok great advise i'm starting to understand now,thanks for the input guys,.

[brmill26]

You can get dedicated film scanners for 35mm film for pretty darn cheap (around $100) and if you shoot more than a handful of rolls it would quickly pay for itself. I have an HP All-in-One with a flatbed scanner that will scan 1200DPI at 48bit which makes for some enormous TIFF files (in the hundreds of MBs). In other words, resolution is no problem. Scanning slides, though, is pretty difficult b/c they come out really dark... still haven't found a solution for that.