[MacDV] Re: Film Scanners

[David DelMonte]

Danny, good food for thought. I've noticed that no one on this list has 
really advocated being a slide scanner. But whatever, good luck with 
the domestic situation...

David

On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 06:39 PM, Danny Grizzle wrote:

> Sounds like my logic 5 years ago. BTW - I still owe on the credit card,
> though I've probably paid for the scanner and auto feeder 3 times, the 
> auto
> feeder does not work reliably unattended (there goes any potential time
> savings), I've never found time to scan my slide collection & 
> negatives,
> I've bought more hard disks than existed worldwide in 1990, and now 
> that I
> know what is involved, I could never hope to recoup my investment by 
> taking
> on side jobs. Not worth my time, much less overhead. In fact, I've got
> teenagers who could use work, but it is not worth the overhead in 
> training
> them... I can't imagine them so much as learning to do a professional 
> level
> CD label, much less becoming a trained Photoshop dust spotter and color
> corrector, performing resolution resampling, making JPEGs, cataloging
> images, etc.
>
> To make things worse, my &^%#$@#!@^%&* unemployed brother-in-law has 
> taken
> up residence in my office for the past month scanning his deceased
> grandfather's slides. A total waste, poor quality results, running up 
> and
> down the hall 3 times every hour, calling my cell phone whenever I'm 
> away...
> unending tech support. Now that he is used to being around, and 
> considering
> himself an expert (fools never have a clue of their own limitations), 
> he is
> probing me about getting on the payroll. Actually, I think he is 
> spending
> all day sucking up Internet bandwidth in chat rooms with Russian 
> women, or
> imitators thereof.
>
> Moral: be careful what you wish for. I'd trade places with you, if I 
> could
> have all my money back.
>
> Danny Grizzle
>