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Film scanners?
I realise that this question doesn't have a simple answer, but it is
time I started scanning some of my old 35 mm slides and negatives (mostly b&w). I would really welcome some comments or experience on hardware in the "keen amateur" price bracket. I know I can also "farm it out" but I'm interested in doing some myself at least to get a feel for what results to inspect. Is there anything which stands out towards the budget end in terms of value for money or ease of use? Thanks in advance Steve |
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wrote: I realise that this question doesn't have a simple answer, but it is time I started scanning some of my old 35 mm slides and negatives (mostly b&w). I would really welcome some comments or experience on hardware in the "keen amateur" price bracket. Hey, that's my bracket as well! I use the Epson Perfection V750 Pro (now replaced with the 850 Pro) which comes with inserts for 135 and 120 film as well as large format and slides. Image quality is superb. https://epson.com/For-Work/Scanners/...on-Perfection- V850-Pro-Photo-Scanner/p/B11B224201 -- Sandman |
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On 15 Apr 2017 13:00:12 GMT, Sandman wrote:
In article , newshound wrote: I realise that this question doesn't have a simple answer, but it is time I started scanning some of my old 35 mm slides and negatives (mostly b&w). I would really welcome some comments or experience on hardware in the "keen amateur" price bracket. Hey, that's my bracket as well! I use the Epson Perfection V750 Pro (now replaced with the 850 Pro) which comes with inserts for 135 and 120 film as well as large format and slides. Image quality is superb. https://epson.com/For-Work/Scanners/...on-Perfection- V850-Pro-Photo-Scanner/p/B11B224201 I have used an Epson V700 for years. This is basically the same as a V750 but with a few less bells and whistles. I have scanned hundreds (thousands?) of old films and slides and found it has done a better than excellent job. It came with extensive software which enables major corrections to be made at the scanning level. Highly recommended. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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On 04/15/2017 05:03 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:
On 15 Apr 2017 13:00:12 GMT, Sandman wrote: In article , newshound wrote: I realise that this question doesn't have a simple answer, but it is time I started scanning some of my old 35 mm slides and negatives (mostly b&w). I would really welcome some comments or experience on hardware in the "keen amateur" price bracket. Hey, that's my bracket as well! I use the Epson Perfection V750 Pro (now replaced with the 850 Pro) which comes with inserts for 135 and 120 film as well as large format and slides. Image quality is superb. https://epson.com/For-Work/Scanners/...on-Perfection- V850-Pro-Photo-Scanner/p/B11B224201 I have used an Epson V700 for years. This is basically the same as a V750 but with a few less bells and whistles. I have scanned hundreds (thousands?) of old films and slides and found it has done a better than excellent job. It came with extensive software which enables major corrections to be made at the scanning level. Highly recommended. I use the Epson V600 it's less expensive and very high quality scans |
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In article , Eric Stevens wrote:
newshound: I realise that this question doesn't have a simple answer, but it is time I started scanning some of my old 35 mm slides and negatives (mostly b&w). I would really welcome some comments or experience on hardware in the "keen amateur" price bracket. Sandman: Hey, that's my bracket as well! I use the Epson Perfection V750 Pro (now replaced with the 850 Pro) which comes with inserts for 135 and 120 film as well as large format and slides. Image quality is superb. https://epson.com/For-Work/Scanners/...on-Perfection- V850-Pro-Photo-Scanner/p/B11B224201 I have used an Epson V700 for years. This is basically the same as a V750 but with a few less bells and whistles. I have scanned hundreds (thousands?) of old films and slides and found it has done a better than excellent job. It came with extensive software which enables major corrections to be made at the scanning level. Highly recommended. Yeah, outside of specialised lab scanners, I think these are the best in the class really. -- Sandman |
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On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 10:03:09 +1200, Eric Stevens
wrote: On 15 Apr 2017 13:00:12 GMT, Sandman wrote: In article , newshound wrote: I realise that this question doesn't have a simple answer, but it is time I started scanning some of my old 35 mm slides and negatives (mostly b&w). I would really welcome some comments or experience on hardware in the "keen amateur" price bracket. Hey, that's my bracket as well! I use the Epson Perfection V750 Pro (now replaced with the 850 Pro) which comes with inserts for 135 and 120 film as well as large format and slides. Image quality is superb. https://epson.com/For-Work/Scanners/...on-Perfection- V850-Pro-Photo-Scanner/p/B11B224201 I have used an Epson V700 for years. This is basically the same as a V750 but with a few less bells and whistles. I have scanned hundreds (thousands?) of old films and slides and found it has done a better than excellent job. It came with extensive software which enables major corrections to be made at the scanning level. Highly recommended. The V700/750 come with Digital Ice built in. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: The V700/750 come with Digital Ice built in. built into the *software*. the scanner itself has infrared illumination built in, which other software can use for dust removal, it just can't be called digital ice. |
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On Saturday, April 15, 2017 at 9:00:16 AM UTC-4, Sandman wrote:
newshound wrote: I realise that this question doesn't have a simple answer, but it is time I started scanning some of my old 35 mm slides and negatives (mostly b&w). I would really welcome some comments or experience on hardware in the "keen amateur" price bracket. Hey, that's my bracket as well! Same here. I use the Epson Perfection V750 Pro (now replaced with the 850 Pro) which comes with inserts for 135 and 120 film as well as large format and slides. Image quality is superb. https://epson.com/For-Work/Scanners/...on-Perfection- V850-Pro-Photo-Scanner/p/B11B224201 I originally started at work with a Nikon Coolscan LS-1000; think this was far enough back that it ran on SCSI. Nice setup, although it appears to now be 99.99% dead because of a combination of the interface (SCSI) and not easily being able to find suitable drivers. Kind of wish that I'd kept an old Mac on System 7/8 around for it. For myself, I have a now-dated Epson flatbed scanner like Sandman; the OEM software has gone obsolete, but OS X supports it adequately, plus I think I have some third party (Viewscan?) that also does well. It has a backlight system and does a good job on transparencies, including some medium format stuff. For $200 I picked up a dedicated 35mm Pacific Image USB scanner, with the idea of pushing through more quantity. After some initial proofing, I've not gotten back to the project. My thoughts today are more lazy ^H^H pragmatic: Set up the slide projector at home, with a dSLR on a tripod next to it ... project, click, project, click ... this is a quick & dirty way to get a halfway decent quality image quickly, which is better than nothing. My thoughts are that I'd do this as a pre-screening and also as a "risk-of-loss" reduction step before I send a batch of stuff out to a 3rd party service for bulk scanning. Similarly, for any really important shots I come across the way, I'd DIY a higher quality scan before I put them into the ship-em-out box. What I've found that it really comes down to is that it is still a challenge to make the time to grind through the film collection, and when I finally do, two things hold me up: - cleaning the images (especially Dad's old slides) - the temptation to jump right into Photoshop to post-process Overall, I think that what I'd probably do differently next time that I take this on would be to define out a more "mass" based workflow with discrete stages. Stage 0: reorganize my workspaces. My current setup is conveniently compact to fit into the home office space, but this contrary to good productivity for this type of job. This is where I wish that I had a "150ft long workbench" to be able to spread stuff out. Stage 1: pull out the material to be worked on; figure out what batch size works. Stage 2: cleaning in batches. Need both a dry & wet plan, as stuff like Dad's old dusty slides are bad and won't clean up with just a dry air blower. Need to think about how much I care if the cardboard slides have to be dismounted for cleaning. Stage 3: material handling prep for going into whatever scanning system (eg, remount slides?). Stage 4: make the scan Stage 5: data backup/archiving Stage 6: post processing (what I've found to be my time suck) Hope this helps, -hh |
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In article , -hh
wrote: Set up the slide projector at home, with a dSLR on a tripod next to it ... project, click, project, click ... this is a quick & dirty way to get a halfway decent quality image quickly, which is better than nothing. Problem with this is of course that you are limited to the resolving power of the slide projector lens, which usually is really crappy. Also, the smoothness of the projector surface, which unless it's a movie-grade projection screen usually is really poor. -- Sandman |
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On Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 3:06:58 AM UTC-4, Sandman wrote:
-hh wrote: Set up the slide projector at home, with a dSLR on a tripod next to it ... project, click, project, click ... this is a quick & dirty way to get a halfway decent quality image quickly, which is better than nothing. Problem with this is of course that you are limited to the resolving power of the slide projector lens, which usually is really crappy. Also, the smoothness of the projector surface, which unless it's a movie-grade projection screen usually is really poor. Very true, which is why I referred to this approach as "quick & dirty" as well as "halfway decent". Point is simply that it is, however slight, still "better than nothing", and gets there without a huge personal time/effort investment. -hh |
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