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| Thread ID: 49490 | 2004-09-21 00:11:00 | Advice on Scanner purchase | pulling hair out (4493) | Press F1 |
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| 274237 | 2004-10-18 00:20:00 | if u want u can always do one and see how its like. it may be enof for you. one scan at high resolu is about $20-30. 1. if ur size is supported. 2. if the old tech film still yeields a good scan. they may be harder to scan. |
nomad (3693) | ||
| 274238 | 2004-10-18 02:19:00 | I have a HP 4470C scanner. It's my second. The first went down after a while, and I was impressed by the HP reaction. They offered me a credit note to either buy another HP or any similar priced scanner. I got the same and found it had improved immensley in the time since my first one. It has a negative and slide adapter and I have used the slide adapter a lot. Well over 1000 slides needed doing and I was quite surprised how soon I had the job finished. Good results too. But negatives I find a different story. I agree with the other replies - for negatives you need a much more specialised and expensive device. I eventually made the decision that as I almost certainly have prints for every negative then the best thing I could do is dump all my negatives. I did. (Very brave of me). But then I never managed to get a decent result from any of the negatives I tried. | Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 274239 | 2004-10-18 04:41:00 | It seems the price of professional neg scanning may be prohibitive, and Thomas confirms the limitations of flatbed neg scanning. Here's an idea Marg: You say the negs are mostly B & W from a Brownie camera. I know those cameras very well. Used to sell them years ago. The most popular model was the Box Brownie. It took 8 exposures on 620 film, each sized 2¼ x 3¼ inches. Another model used 127 film with slightly smaller neg size. A more economical solution for a satisfactory result would be to scan good quality enlargements of the negs, on a modest flatbed scanner. Do you have prints of these negs? If so they are likely to be contact prints. i.e. same size as the neg. These will not scan very well. But the negs are very much bigger than 35mm negs & if in reasonable condition, with a sharp image, excellent enlargements of 6 x 4", 5 x 7" or larger can be made. These will scan well on the flatbed, and the bonus is you have the enlargements to keep. Problem may be to find someone to do the prints. I used to do this, but these days with colour mainly in demand, only few labs do B & W, but there maybe some. Doing the maths of dpi, pixels etc, shows that this method could provide a better result than scanning negs in a flatbed scanner, when a special quality film scanner is not available. Best wishes, Baz. |
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