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Don,
From my experience with our local historical museum I feel the
Epson V700 flatbed scanner is a good option, though it may be expensive.
Used an earlier Epson flatbed model (perfection 1200) with 5x7"
transparency option for this purpose for nearly the last 10 years. Still
works well.
V770 will scan transparencies/negatives up to 8x10", and often
museums have large negatives from the past to be scanned.
I admit the largest negs I have come across were around 7x5".
(or the old half plate size, which I think was 6 1/2" x 4 3/4
". ) But some old photographers used 8x10" plates.
But with modern digital cameras the easiest way is to set the
negs on a light box and use a macro lens. Certainly also this is much
quicker. Especially if B&W as no colour balance required. With a
stand and lights can also use camera for any prints.
Enjoy your coffee, it is 11.30 pm here now, bed is a better
prospect.
Jim Thyer
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 11:06
PM
Subject: Re: Film scanners?
Let me simplify this by stating, as I should have
earlier, that I know their needs and resources since I have been doing this
for them for a few years. So let's eliminate methods and motives
etc. I just want advice on the current crop of scanners to know if
something would be advisable other than what I use. I appreciate all the
well meaning advice but it isn't what I need. Machinery! That is
what I could use advise on. It is very early morning here and I haven't
had my coffee yet so I hope I don't sound peevish because I do know you are
all being helpful.
Don
On 3/16/11 3:45 AM, Pablo Coronel
wrote:
I guess it depends which formats do they want to scan.
For
35mm the Nikons are hard to beat, specially if you can get the transparency
feeder to scan slides in batch mode.
For larger formats the Epsons maybe
a good alternative
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Karl Shah-Jenner
<shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- 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
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