Professional Photographers Using Linux?

thesun asks: "I'm a freelance writer and photographer and I'm wondering what Pro Photographers have done in regards to color matching and scanning under Linux, especially when going from slides to digital. I just can't get anything close to a good image when I scan a slide. They're blurry and the colors are so off that doing anything with my thousands of slides is proving to be prohibitively time-consuming. Are other Pros (or talented amateurs) having similar problems? Are there solutions out there I haven't found? (Sorry, I can't dump thousands into a piece of hardware---I'm looking for a way to make the most of my Epson Perfection 2400 with transparency adapter)."

Slides?

[Anonymous Coward]

Where I'm from, only old people use slides.

Re:Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course its a dream. He needs to wake up and get in touch with reality just like everybody else!

*ducks*

Sorry

[Oz0ne]

Linux doesn't come close to comparing with windows or a mac in photo utilities. It's a shame too.

Gimp is nice, and making progress but it's still lightyears behind photoshop.

As far as hardware, reference photo.net. They will point you in the right direction for scanning in your slides.

Re:Digital?

[bcattwoo]

Is there a reason you need to keep/have the slides?

Because reshooting all the pictures he already has on slides would require a lot of travel and/or a time machine?

I want to ride 500 miles through the desert

[Anonymous Coward]

All I have is a rusted-out Schwinn bicycle. I'm too cheap to buy one of those newfangled "automobiles" or "motorcycles."

There must be a way to make a shitty bicycle do what I want. I'm willing to put any amount of time into this project but not any real money; that's because my time isn't worth anything. Tell me how to do it!

Re:P.S.

[lachlan76]

Just send a link to fuckinggoogleit.com [fuckinggoogleit.com]

That site sums it all up really.

Re:Sorry, Your screwed.

[Just Some Guy]

Here's a photo taken with a Nikon F80 using a 70-300 zoom lens that I scanned with a fairly expensive HP flatbed scanner and slide attachment.

That's what you get for expecting a razor-sharp scan of a picture of fuzz [urbandictionary.com].

Re:Sorry, Your screwed.

[owlstead]

Inches, feet or metres, make up your mind! We're not walking calculators you know!

sweet but...

[flyatcheerful]

I agree but
Antarctic bird.....geesh dude, this is /. !!!

Leave something for the Mac to do

[putaro]

Please leave the Macintosh its market niche so that after Linux crushes Windows there will still be a place for Apple fanbois.

Re:Pro Equipments

[kronocide]

[I]Where I'm from, professionals use professional equipments - from cameras to lens to light detectors to scanners to color-management gadgets to printers and so on.[/I]

Where I'm from, professionals use amateur equipment, and amateurs use professional equipment. It's completely backwards, but that's how it is here. Pro photographers usually have old instamatic cameras, and old retired people on bus trips all have Hasselblads or Rolleiflexes. It's very odd.

Re:Sorry, Your screwed.

[flacco]

don't forget to mention the decent slide scanner.