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From: rice@WILLOW.CRAY.COM (Jonathan Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Photographs to bits: how to proceed?
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Date: 13 Mar 91 20:30:25 GMT
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Here's a novice question for you:

I'd like to take a photograph of some people, and include it in a DTP'ed
document.  I won't embarrass myself by describing my DTP tools to all of you
Interleaf/Framemaker/Ventura gurus; let it suffice to say that once the
image is in most any of the popular formats I can cope.

What I haven't a clue about is how to go from camera to disk.  Do I shoot
negative or positive film?  If negative, do I work from the neg or from a
print?  If the photograph is in color, is it better to scan it in color and
dither or halftone it on the 'puter, or to scan it as grey?  What sort of
scanner should I be looking for?

So, I'm sitting here with a roll of Ektachrome and a roll of Kodacolor.
Somewhere in town one of those little computer stores must be willing to rent
me a few minutes of scanner time (on who knows what equipment).  What's the
next step?

Thanks in advance for advice and comments, and apologies if I've overlooked
some basic principle like the ability to hook my 35mm camera to the serial
port... :o)

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