I have done about 2-3000 slides & negatives so far and perhaps another thousand using a Wolverine. I get very good results with ease!

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I take pictures of belly dancers in a restaurant with very low light. I use a Nikon D850 and shoot 300 to 600 pictures per event. I do a first selection of raw images to consider using. Those that I edit go through these steps. Level (make vertical lines vertical), crop then adjust exposure & color. AS a group I then denoise, sharpen with Topaz and add my logo. Last Saturdays shoot I ended up with 89 useable pictures out of 633 images. It does take time!

Absolutely wonderful!!!!

I took my Leica 3F on the Grand canyon raft trip! I put the camera inside a ziplock bag and then screwed the retaining ring into the sunscreen lens. Then cut the plastic film from around the inside of retaining ring. I could work the camera through the plastic or open from the back to get at the controls! Work like a charm, no problems! But two other persons on the trip had big problems! Yes, I did "clean" the sunscreen glass a few times.

It was fun and work also. Shot 660 exposures and ended up with 60 to publish! By the time I reduced file size for Facebook all the fine detail I had was lost. Should anyone want a copy it could be printed as a 8x10 or larger!

I did a photo shoot of a belly dance show in a restaurant room. Do you think that there was poor lighting? And some daylight also streamed in from the front windows. I used my trusty D850 with a f:2.8 zoom lens. I set for manual f:2.8 and 160th shutter. I let the ISO go where it wants. It works for me!

I shot over 660 exposures! Initial selection was 146 to look at for editing and ended up with 60 prints for posting to the group. Body position and facial expression are my main criteria for initial selection.

The attached 4 pictures show my editing steps. I use ACDSee as the editor for selection, tilt correction, cropping and exposure followed up by Topaz denoise and sharping. As posted, you may not see some change in the Topaz treatments, but it is there!

In looking at the preview, I am disappointed in that the differences I see in the original file do not show up here!

I sure do enjoy viewing your reports of your travels! I have been to many of the locations and it is a delight to get an update. At 93 I think my travels are limited to viewing those of others.
Johanna

[quote=Johanna]Our honeymoon was from Detroit to Chicago thence on Rt 66 all the way to LA in 1976 in a little Nash Rambler with a containable tire kit on the back. I have many memories of that trip! Also lots of 35mm slides which need to be put into story form!

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I have been to Petra in the winter and got caught in a snow storm! I was amazed of what my eyes saw! Jarash is different but absolutely as interesting. Would love to go back but at 93 I think I will just enjoy the pictures of others now!

I have been to Petra in the winter and got caught in a snow storm! I was amazed of what my eyes saw! Jarash is different but absolutely as interesting. Would love to go back but at 93 I think I will just enjoy the pictures of others now!

I may be an old lazy duffer, but I bought a Wolverine F2D Titan film to digital converter! Lazy way, yes; quick way, yes; acceptable output files, yes, positive or negative in, positive output files!!!!!!
Supports 135, 127, 126, 110, 8mm fil slides or negs, 110/APS, 8mm film.

I may be an old lazy duffer, but I bought a Wolverine F2D Titan film to digital converter! Lazy way, yes; quick way, yes; acceptable output files, yes, positive or negative in, positive output files!!!!!!
Supports 135, 127, 126, 110, 8mm fil slides or negs, 110/APS, 8mm film.

Gee thanks for some quick reply's! It is my thought to uninstall the old then the new. Thus saving space on the C: drive, a precious commodity.