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Negative scanner

  • 14-08-2003 2:12pm
    #1
    Kell
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    Anyone any ideas on whats a good negative scanner to go for?

    Cheers-

    K


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  • #2
    Samson
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    I have a Canon FS4000, which I am very happy with.
    Good resolution, good density range, good price, good image clean up options (without too much image softening).
    When I sold my previous film scanner, I let my SCSI card go with it thinking I might get along using the Canon's USB capability. Big mistake, I got myself a new SCSI card fairly quickly as scanning via USB at full resolution and with clean-up turned on takes a ridiculous amount of time.
    In other words SCSI is the way to go.*

    Nikon Coolscan models are always worth a mention too, but are not cheap.

    A few reviews from the always trustworthy photo.net here:
    http://www.photo.net/digital/scanners/





    *Note to nerds: I have no experience with Firewire, so cannot comment on it's relative data transfer speed, so no smart comments please.


  • #3
    Kell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kell


    Samson- this might be a daft notion, but can you create prints from the scanned negative image with the Canon? What was the price as well?

    K-


  • #4
    Samson
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    Do you mean inkjet prints or prints onto photographic paper?
    If you mean to the latter, you will need to burn your images (preferably saved as TIF) to CD and bring them to a shop or lab with digital printing capabilities.


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