You could also use a dark card (scroll down to tips) to avoid camera shake ... also applies to cameras without mirror lockup feature. 

Shutter on B; dark card in front of lens; open the shutter; move the dark card away; move it back; close the shutter. 

--Martin

12 lumens? Not sure. 

The description mentions using the device in low light settings.

--Martin

 Good question.  

For me, usually It is "something handy" ... that is, the best from yesterday's walk/hike.  

Often it is to tell a story. ... or a counterpoint to another's upload.  There are some examples among the 40 uploads in my Renderosity gallery.  

OTOH, I have over 10,000 JPEG images on my HDD. Plus perhaps another 2,000 to 3,000 unscanned film images.  

--Martin

I found a Ken Rockwell comment on film processing ...

"Why we love film"

Which says in part,

"35mm Film vs. Digital"

"A frame of 35mm film, scanned cheaply at a good photo lab to a CD,
is about equal to the resolution of a 25MP DSLR."

Somewhere else, he might mention Costco ... but not here. 

He does mention North Coast Photographic Services which offers to scan 35mm ,,,

• ENHANCED SCAN 35mm 3339x5035 pixels

• BUDGET SCAN 35mm 2048x3072 pixels

• PREMIUM SCANS FROM SLIDES & NEGATIVES
  35mm slide/negative Premium Scan @ 3339x5035 pixels

That's 16.8 Megapixels; 6.3 Megapixels, and 16.8 Megapixels. 

That's not 25 Megapixels. 

Comments, please ...

--MGD

p.s. NCPS mentions Ken Rockwell. 
 

Here is some of that "additional research" I spoke of ...

• One of the Costco in San Diegi, CA asserted that  a scan of 35mm would
  give 2,000 X 3,000 pixels ... that's 6 Megapixels.

I'm starting to doubt the 25 Megapixels claim in the article. 

Comments, please ...

--MGD

Greetings,

I read Last Romance with Film, and saw the claim that a Costco 1-hour photo center
can produce 25 megapixel images while the photographer is having lunch. 

I called 3 Costco locations near me to see what they would say ... 

• the first was too busy to answer the phone;

• the second one answered the phone, but then didn't talk to me;

• the third, after some discussion, claimed that the scan would produce an
  8 megapixel image. 

• Too early in the day to call the Costco in San Diego, CA. 

Additional research on this issue is needed. 

Might shoot a roll of 35mm and play dumb. 

As to the rest of Last Romance with Film, I agree that it is difficult to get a good
quality scan of a 35mm film image ... it's almost impossible to even get the tech
to say what resolution they can scan. 

Comments, please.

--MGD

Thanks to gradient for his input. 

I checked with Hannspree pre-sales and got this answer ...

After doing some research, our techs have advised that the Panel for
the HF237HPB and the HF229HPB have the same panel. Both panels
display color gamut of 72%.

OK ... given that it is a refurbished 23 inch widescreen LCD HD (1080p)
monitor with 72% of NTSC color gamut ... for $146 (no tax; no shipping)
... is it a bargain ... or a dog?

BTW, I already own a Spyder2express color callibration device. 

Comments, please.

--Martin

The link from jcpowell didn't work for me. 

Here is another hp page on Scanjet 7400 Scan Quality.

--Martin

Thanks to onnetz for your response ...

Pay the $40 more and get a new one. Try looking at newegg.com.

I didn't see (find) the same monitor in 23" monitors on newegg.com. 

Could you provide a link to the specific monitor you were thinking of? 

For a monitor you want 1080p, hdmi hookup, high contrast ratio,

The 23" Hannspree HF237HPB offered by geeks.com does have those features. 

BTW, I can get that one with free shipping ... IOW, the $146 is my total cost: 
monitor, shipping, and no sales tax. 

a fast response time(for gaming),

Thanks, but gaming is not a concern for me. 

Thanks to inshaala for his comments ...

if you get a big monitor with a small native resolution you might as well
just save your money for a better quality smaller monitor with the same
native resolution...

My current monitor is a 19" Dell M991 which I run at 1280 X 960.

The 23" Hannspree HF237HPB with a resolution of 1920 X 1080 would be
a welcome improvement ... and would still fit on my computer desk/hutch. 

That would be wide enough to allow all of the photoshop pallets and a good
sized image to coexist without having to go to a dual monitor configuration.

My most important question about this monitor is color ... will the colors be
true ... will the colors be stable across the entire viewing area at an 18"
viewing distance? 

--Martin

This started happening something like a month ago. 

Before that, I would stay logged in to renderosity for months ... even years. 

My considered opinion is that something has changed at your end. 

Please don't guess about this ... just ask your programmers. 

Thanks. 

--Martin

I'm curious about why you were converting jpg (from the camera) to tiff in the first place. 

--Martin

I read the cited article. 

I agree that you should copy the image file from the flash memory to your HDD ... and then process the image from your HDD. 

That would be a good workflow  ... and the HDD and the flash memory would be backups of each other.  

The article claims that the PC continues to access and/or scan the flash memory after the copy. 

As far as I can tell ... my direct experience ... that is NOT true. 

A flash memory reader has an activity LED ... I do see it blink while the copy to the HDD is happening. 

However, after that copy finishes, the LED is inactive ... I would take that to mean that the PC has stopped accessing the flash memory. 

In that regard, the article raises a flase warning. 

Comments, please ...

--Martin

there are email delays when the newsletters go out

That means that someone made a choice, a decision,
... decided that the newsletters were more important than the eBot messages. 

As far as I remember, this is the first time a Renderosity Admin made
a connection between eBot delays and the newsletter.

Up until now, the answers have been of the form,

'no one else has complained', or

'I got all of mine OK', or

'how are your SPAM filters set'? ...

Here's a new idea ... Why not take a second look at that decision? 

... perhaps set the newsletter process to a lower priority, or

have it pause for 1 minute every 1000 messages; or ... whatever

That might give the eBot messages a fair chance at the outgoing eMail server? 

Perhaps someone should take a look at the eBot process to see why it **
drops** some messages instead of retrying? 

Just a concept, or so ...

Comments, please ...

--Martin

Many other members have noticed this, as well. 

Renderosity seems to be in denial about this issue. 
... and, as we know, denial is very powerful. 

Does this seem to happen more on the day (Wednesday)
that the renderosity newsletter goes out? 

--Martin

BTW, this is a complex image sensor ... and html server. 

You need to have another computer somewhere running a web browseer
(or the equivalent software) to record the streaming images. 

--Martin