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From: Don Roberts
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Cc: Emily L. Ferguson
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Film scanners?
I have had good experiences with the Epson 2450 with the transparency
adapter but it is probably not nearly state of the art anymore. I have done
medium format and up to and including 5x7 on that. Of course, with
historical work most of it is BW which does help some. I know color
scanning is quite a different animal. The Coolscan works fine for 35mm.
Don
I'd always ask what the intent of the scans were..
If it is for archiving purposes, I'd recommend film over digital any day of
the week. If it'f for mass access, say from a data storage facility then
digital is the way to go, as anyone can access the images anywhere.
Now it comes down to, what (again) are the images for? If it's for print
purposes, then you'd determine the maximum size you'd be willing to provide
and scan to that res for storage.. if it's merely for viewing purposes then
I'd be guessing 1080x1024 pixels is arguably the biggest image anyone would
need.
At which point you can safely tuck the scanners away and fall back to the
digital camera, batch outputting the images through viewscan and neatimage
and you'll have hacked about 75% off the time needed to perform the task.
k
