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looking to pick up a good quality film scanner for 35mm
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I have Epson v500, everyone seems to be happy with the v500 (or the more expensive v700) . A few people on the site have one or the other.
You don’t mention budget, there are dedicated film scanners [the ones above are for both film and photos] but the jump in price is huge.What I would suggest is that whatever you get make sure it can scan 120 film as well. There is always a chance you will be tempted by a Holga or Bronica etc.
I originally had a Canon, a good scanner, but without MF neg scanning. I had to buy a new scanner when I started dabbling with medium format, waste of cash.M
Have you used your V500 for prints, or just for uploads to the web? I was thinking to get a scanner so that i could just get my negs developed, scan them and then choose which photos to print. So a scanner thats good for prints (maybe even up to A4 or A3 size) is a priority. I don’t have a set budget, but probably wouldn’t want to spend any more than 200-250 euro
I haven’t printed from scans but they look reasonably pretty good large on the screen.
If I have a neg I print from the neg, only generally print digital from digicam photos.Mark who runs this site has had both the v500 and v700 so he could tell you better about at least these 2 if you PM him.
See this thread https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?p=184338There is a lot of advice on PI, not always easy to find but if you search for v500 you should get most of the scanner discussion threads.
Martin
Martin, how do you find the negative holder in the V500?
how easy is to get focus?Well the negative holder is ok, nothing special. It is a fixed height, so fixed focus. The v700 is better as you can adjust the focus (adjusting the lens within).
There are recommended third party negative holders for the v500 which hold the negs straighter and have adjustable feet, so that you can calibrate the scanning better.
I haven’t ordered one yet as I was moving house etc, but I plan to,…..if I can find the link, its in a thread here, started by espressbro I think. :?
Just found the link! http://www.betterscanning.com/scanning/models/v500.html
I’ll give one of these a go, not that I’m unhappy with the scanning, just that it may give better results.Martin
MartinOC wrote:
The v700 is better as you can adjust the focus (adjusting the lens within).
Not exactly correct,
the focus is adjusted by a choice of two ‘feet’ positions on the holder.I notice there’s a new low cost Epson out, the V300…
or rather, I haven’t noticed it before this-
j
I have an Epson V350 that I don’t use. It has no power adapter and I haven’t been able to find a replacement for it.
If you want it, give me a shout otherwise it is going to the recycling centreDarragh
good call darragh !
Anyone have any tips on scanning?
I am using the V500 and cannot get sharp scans at full
resolution. 240dpi ?Sorry for hijacking the thread, tell me to fheck off
and create me own . . .Alan
aoluain wrote:
Anyone have any tips on scanning?
might help placing the film in the scanner.
:roll:
Fheck it I was trying to scan the digital display
on the back of the 5D:roll:
aoluain wrote:
I am using the V500 and cannot get sharp scans at full
resolution. 240dpi ?
AlanIs the highest (un-interpolated) resolution not something like 6400 dpi ?
I never use the highest resolution as I see no returns from it, except a slow computer.M
Well my understanding of it is that anything
above 300dpi is a waste, as you say slow computer.I couldnt see any major benifit scanning at 300 over 240?
I am scanning 240dpi to a size of 600mm x 400mm [Approx A2 size]
at full dpi it is just . . . shapes, at print size it looks ok . . . on screen
This reminds me of another discussion about print being the only
tell tale evidence of image quality or something like that,Im sure the his highness the oracle will put me straight. :lol:
might send one to the lab to print.
Martin thanks for the reply and Gigi too I suppose :lol:
Alan
Alan, that’s a bit low-
The question, originally, was asked about scanning 35mm-
that’s a frame size of 24x36mm-
or 1×1.5 inches.Scanning at 240 dpi will give you an image of 240×360 pixels-
fine if you want to print at the same size- at 240dpi.if you want a 10x enlargement, you’d need to scan at 2400 dpi.
although dpi refers to the print,
and spi refers to the scanner.Though maybe not the Epson scanner-
If you want maximum quality, you might need to sample higher-
the image is then interpolated down.There’s a lot of information and discussion about scanning, if you look.
There’s a dedicated scanning forum,
but I prefer to get information on scanners from the Large Format Photography Forum-
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/index.php.search for V700 or V750 there, and you’ll find a lot of informed opinion…
However, it won’t relate to 35mm scanning-
nobody would recommend using anything but a dedicated scanner for scanning 35mm,
and I must say I wouldn’t be happy with 35mm scans off the V750.
Although they’re adequate for producing images to display on the internet,
there are definitely better ways to produce images for printing.As I don’t print from 35mm, it doesn’t really affect me,
and I don’t really know the best way to do it-I’m not helping, am I?
joseph
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