Re: Film scanners?

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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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