35mm Slides To DVD
Friday, July 25, 2003
Red Eye Effect
When you see a person's eye glowing in a picture, you are actually seeing the light reflected off the back of their eye. Why is it red? Because the retina is red. A person's pupil is normally black because there is no light inside the eye, and thus it is black. It would be like cutting a small hole into the side of a closed box. The hole would appear dark because it is dark inside the box. However, suppose you would put a piece of aluminum foil or a mirror inside the box opposite the hole. If you would shine a flashlight at the hole from the outside, the light would bounce off the reflective surface and come back out the hole, causing it to glow. This is what is happening when you see people's eyes glowing in pictures. The "Red-Eye" effect spoils many otherwise perfect photos. Even though digital cameras usually have a flash setting that prevents red-eye, how often do we forget to select that option?
In the future, you can overcome the red-eye effect by:
1) Moving your flash farther from your camera lens so that light is not reflected directly from the person’s iris back at the camera
2) Moving closer to your subject.
3) Raising the level of natural light so that the person’s iris gets smaller.
Wednesday, July 23, 2003
35mm Slide Scanning
If you went to all the trouble to capture your precious memories onto 35mm slides with the beautiful color and detail, why would you settle for an inferior conversion to digital format? Don't waste your time and your money. You are going to be disappointed if you try to do this yourself. Scanning prices are so inexpensive and you will be so much happier if you would just use our services.
