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Re: Scanning old negatives -
04-16-2007
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On Apr 16, 11:43 am, Dave S <dabcdsch... (AT) mts (DOT) not> wrote: Fred Martin wrote: Stuart wrote: I would like to gather opinions on the most appropriate film scanner to purchase to archive a collection of my late father and grandfathers b/w negatives, mainly 6" x 4". Some are glass plate the most normal negs of street scenes and faces in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's in Australia and New Zealand. Would the Epson Perfection V700 Scanner be suitable? I looked at the specs for the 750 and I doubt if I would need to go to a wet gate scanner. Something around the Epson price range - a bit higher would be okay. Please reply to the group or (remove the spaces) n e t m a s k 56 at g o o g l e dot c o m and the subject line Scanning old negatives As an alternative to scanning, I would suggest you try what I did. I have used a light box and rephotographed many slides and also negatives of various sizes and have been very pleased with the results. I bought a Canon slide scanner originally to scan slides, but found that rephotographing them with my digital camera is just as good quality and much, much faster. ....Fred I agree with the part about lightbox-rephotographing vs scanning slides. Very significantly better! However, when I tried this with negatives, I never got satisfactory results on my attempts to neutralize the orange mask. Somehow the hardware/software in the scanner can do this really quickly and accurately, and a sequence of steps on PaintShopPro ended up with mediocre results. Dave S. I have a Bessler slide duplicator with Schneider 80 f4 Componon slide duping lens on it and the result don't have the dynamic range of my Epson V700 when using a D200. They aren't bad, but not as good as a scanner. A 58mb 16bit file is a little limiting if I want to print large. I can get larger files with the scanner too, with 4x5s I scan at 2400ppi and get a 500mb file in 16 bits. Nice if I want to make a 16x20 print. As for the orange mask, most transpaerency scanners take care of it in the scanning program. I have used some older color negs with a very deep orange base, and even those came out nicely requiring only a little play with the color. Tom |
ASAP but I guess it will be about a month before I can start due to personal
reasons. Once I get going I will post my experiences. Have still to get a
good price in Sydney Australia for the V750.
I'm running XP SP2 with all updates, 1 gig of memory and virtually unlimited
HDD space.
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"tomm42" <tmon... (AT) wildblue (DOT) net> wrote in message news:1176743627.937374.289600 (AT) p77g2000hsh (DOT) googlegroups.com... On Apr 16, 11:43 am, Dave S <dabcdsch... (AT) mts (DOT) not> wrote: Fred Martin wrote: Stuart wrote: I would like to gather opinions on the most appropriate film scanner to purchase to archive a collection of my late father and grandfathers b/w negatives, mainly 6" x 4". Some are glass plate the most normal negs of street scenes and faces in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's in Australia and New Zealand. Would the Epson Perfection V700 Scanner be suitable? I looked at the specs for the 750 and I doubt if I would need to go to a wet gate scanner. Something around the Epson price range - a bit higher would be okay. Please reply to the group or (remove the spaces) n e t m a s k 56 at g o o g l e dot c o m and the subject line Scanning old negatives As an alternative to scanning, I would suggest you try what I did. I have used a light box and rephotographed many slides and also negatives of various sizes and have been very pleased with the results. I bought a Canon slide scanner originally to scan slides, but found that rephotographing them with my digital camera is just as good quality and much, much faster. ....Fred I agree with the part about lightbox-rephotographing vs scanning slides. Very significantly better! However, when I tried this with negatives, I never got satisfactory results on my attempts to neutralize the orange mask. Somehow the hardware/software in the scanner can do this really quickly and accurately, and a sequence of steps on PaintShopPro ended up with mediocre results. Dave S. I have a Bessler slide duplicator with Schneider 80 f4 Componon slide duping lens on it and the result don't have the dynamic range of my Epson V700 when using a D200. They aren't bad, but not as good as a scanner. A 58mb 16bit file is a little limiting if I want to print large. I can get larger files with the scanner too, with 4x5s I scan at 2400ppi and get a 500mb file in 16 bits. Nice if I want to make a 16x20 print. As for the orange mask, most transpaerency scanners take care of it in the scanning program. I have used some older color negs with a very deep orange base, and even those came out nicely requiring only a little play with the color. Tom Many thanks to all for the valuable advice - I want to start the project ASAP but I guess it will be about a month before I can start due to personal reasons. Once I get going I will post my experiences. Have still to get a good price in Sydney Australia for the V750. I'm running XP SP2 with all updates, 1 gig of memory and virtually unlimited HDD space. |
The V700 works well too, I believe you get a sightly better scanning
system and antiNewton glass with the V750. I questioned if the extra
$200 US was worth it. I got the V700 because my older flatbed bit the
dust (Epson Expression 1600) and the V750 wasn't out yet. The V700 has
been a great scanner, put away my older Nikon LS2000, cause the V700
was better.
Tom
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| The V700 works well too, I believe you get a sightly better scanning system and antiNewton glass with the V750. I questioned if the extra $200 US was worth it. I got the V700 because my older flatbed bit the dust (Epson Expression 1600) and the V750 wasn't out yet. The V700 has been a great scanner, put away my older Nikon LS2000, cause the V700 was better. Tom |
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What is "antiNewton glass" ??? tomm42 wrote: The V700 works well too, I believe you get a sightly better scanning system and antiNewton glass with the V750. I questioned if the extra $200 US was worth it. I got the V700 because my older flatbed bit the dust (Epson Expression 1600) and the V750 wasn't out yet. The V700 has been a great scanner, put away my older Nikon LS2000, cause the V700 was better. Tom |
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