I asked on this list a few years about negative scanning. The topic's come up again at http://saveaussiemusic.org/ , so I wrote this up:
http://wiki.saveaussiemusic.org/wiki/Negative_scanning (feel free to add, correct, etc - here is fine) - precis: flatbeds are unusable, Ion's is as bad as scanning a small print, professional ones are the only archival quality option.
I am now told that high-quality negative scanners are not being made any more, and the remaining ones are becoming precious commodities ...
And I'm still after anyone in London with a high-quality negative scanner to hand!
- d.
On 27 July 2011 11:47, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I asked on this list a few years about negative scanning. The topic's come up again at http://saveaussiemusic.org/ , so I wrote this up:
Has anyone used one of these Plustek film scanners?
http://www.imaging-resource.com/SCAN/PLTK7600/7600.HTM
Form factor of a dedicated *film scanner* (not a flatbed with a backlight bolted on) is attractive here. Review positive, 100% crops look good. And realistically, I will never be able to afford a CoolScan.
Anyone?
- d.
I asked on this list a few years about negative scanning. The topic's come up again at http://saveaussiemusic.org/ , so I wrote this up:
I have quite a bunch of slides myself. And I was wondering how the slide scanners stack up against photographing a projected slide. Dark room, high quality screen, camera on a tripod, manual white balance, exposure bracketing. This should give decent results with a good SLR. Unfortunately I don't have my slides accessible right now. Of course a dedicated scanner might offer a more streamlined workflow. Then again with a wire remote there are only two buttons to press per slide, camera and projector advance. The post processing could be pretty much automated (the static subject should make assembly of bracketed exposures trivial. The upside would be a probably much better reproduction of the slides' dynamic range. Any experiences here? Daniel
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Daniel Schwen lists@schwen.de wrote:
I asked on this list a few years about negative scanning. The topic's come up again at http://saveaussiemusic.org/ , so I wrote this up:
I have quite a bunch of slides myself. And I was wondering how the slide scanners stack up against photographing a projected slide. Dark room, high quality screen, camera on a tripod, manual white balance, exposure bracketing. This should give decent results with a good SLR. Unfortunately I don't have my slides accessible right now. Of course a dedicated scanner might offer a more streamlined workflow. Then again with a wire remote there are only two buttons to press per slide, camera and projector advance. The post processing could be pretty much automated (the static subject should make assembly of bracketed exposures trivial. The upside would be a probably much better reproduction of the slides' dynamic range. Any experiences here?
I have an old Relfecta scanner for films and slides. Example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World%27s_lowest_point_(1971).jpg (no noise/scratch/etc filters applied)
Cheers, Magnus
On 27 July 2011 16:00, Daniel Schwen lists@schwen.de wrote:
I asked on this list a few years about negative scanning. The topic's come up again at http://saveaussiemusic.org/ , so I wrote this up:
I have quite a bunch of slides myself. And I was wondering how the slide scanners stack up against photographing a projected slide. Dark room, high quality screen, camera on a tripod, manual white balance, exposure bracketing. This should give decent results with a good SLR. Unfortunately I don't have my slides accessible right now.
With a SLR, there's an even simpler approach for slides - you can get a simple slide duplicator, which is not very much more than a tube with a lens mount at one end and a clip for the slide at the other. Once you get suitably even lighting behind it, you're sorted - slide in, click, next slide, click, next slide, click. The image quality, when I tested this, seemed pretty good.
Unfortunately, most of the duplicators on the market date from the film era, and so the focal length is off for a smaller digital sensor - it's going to give you a little crop of the centre of the slide. You could use a full-frame camera, if you have one lying around, or it's possible someone has made shorter APS-sized ones.
The Internet Archive is doing very cool things, for instance: http://blog.archive.org/2011/06/24/our-newest-addition-film-scanning/ In some subsite of theirs there's probably some info about negative scanning as well...
Nemo