12-05-2006, 02:50 PM
[quote AlphaDog]If anybody ever did something like that "for me", I might give them their head back on a platter. .
I really don't understand your objection, unless you're a very serious photographer who bristles at the thought of someone else touching your negatives. Personally, I would love for someone else to have gone through and sent out my old negs/slides and presented me with scanned versions on christmas morning. After all, the negs are still there to be scanned again and the files are available for digital manipulation if you don't like the original results. I'd be far less enamored of someone giving me a gift that involved me doing hundreds of hours of tedious work, unless of course I'd specifically asked for it myself.
I really don't understand your objection, unless you're a very serious photographer who bristles at the thought of someone else touching your negatives. Personally, I would love for someone else to have gone through and sent out my old negs/slides and presented me with scanned versions on christmas morning. After all, the negs are still there to be scanned again and the files are available for digital manipulation if you don't like the original results. I'd be far less enamored of someone giving me a gift that involved me doing hundreds of hours of tedious work, unless of course I'd specifically asked for it myself.