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Scanning negatives
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I’ve got myself loads of 35mm negs stored in boxes here, anyone here scanning their own negs ?
Any recommendations on scanners and how to actually work on them after scanning ?
thanks
fred the film guyPrimarily digital here, but I know that one of the other members here uses a scanner so you ought to get an answer
yeah I am scanning, though only b&w, never tried colour but roughly here goes
if you are only doing 35mm get a proper film scanner, if you need to do medium format too you’ll have to make do with a flatbed or spend a lot of money
Digital ICE type software does not work with proper b&w films, you will have to spot the scans manually afterwards in photoshop with the healing brush, this can be tedious. minimize this by keeping the negs clean and giving them a blast with the blower before scanning
if you have a lot of colour negs to scan definately get one with digital ice, if you are only doing b&w like me you might aswell save yer cash
Minolta scanners seem to be a good and a damn site cheaper than the nikon offerings, i have an old scan dual III, fine for me
The software that comes with scanners aint alway that good. I use vuescan instead of the minolta software.
once i have the stuff scanned i just clean the image up and adjust the levels, job done
scanning can be tedious and time consuming imho, you will need to spend a lot of time playing with scanning software settings depending on the scanner and film being scanned
Underexposed negatives do not scan well
b&w scans the grain tends to get emphasised a bit
I find I get better results scanning slightly more modern emulsions like Neopan rather than traditional films like HP5+, this my just be my technique needing work though
I am in the same situation, I have rakes of negatives and dont want to do it half -arsed – I want to use a good quality scanner but dont want to shell out for an expensive piece of kit I will only ever use for about a week. Before it goes back in its box or before I sell it for about half what I paid for it.
I have asked before elsewhere and got no answer but what the hell – does anyone know where I can rent a good quality/ high end negative scanner for a few days / a week ?
I tend to use ebay for this sort of thing, buy it , try it, sell it
I have done this with a number of lenses, an F4, f3HP, 2 x f100 and a yashicamat :) so far i have made money on most too
The problem with the scanner I suppose is the weight for the postage, I got mine posted to a UK address and brought over by family
likely you will want the scanner for longer than you think, its time consuming and you are going to be spending a good bit of time playing with settings before you have got the hang of scanning.
Hmm – your probably right. Thinking about it now I am going to put this off much later in the year as it will take a while to get through them all- and when the weathers crap theres not always as much to be out photographing anyway.
I scanning my negatives and slides (b&w, colour, 35mm and medium) with Epson scanner.
Mostly i use the auto function and the result is great. Only the time is too much.I use a nikon coolscan 8000 id say u could pick one up now for next to nothing and the results are second to none.
gerry
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