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I take much better slides with my digital camera than I did with my SLR. I'd urge everyone to give it a try - don't ever let something like this stop you from entering a competition or applying for a grant. (And congratulations, Mary, for applying for a grant. Let us know how it works out, I'll bet there's lots of interest on the Forum about grants.)
I used to have lots of trouble with glare on my oil paintings when I used indoor tungsten lights with my film camera. I now shoot indoors under skylights. The bright, diffuse, coolish light seems well suited for this purpose. I'm attaching a photo of my studio showing my setup. The easel holding the painting is to the left and the camera tripod is on the right. It is really important to use a cord release on a digital camera, by the way.
I don't have as many color problems with my digital camera as I did with film. Part of the trouble is that many pigments "flash" unpleasantly with film, especially the cadmiums (and, I suspect, the thalos, though they're not on my palette).
I have had no trouble uploading tif files to a local photo place, though I'm going to try Michael's suggestion, they are less expensive. It's so easy to crop the file in Photoshop and then send it out via the internet. I used to hate to crop a slide with silver tape.
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