Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:38 AM 7/24/00 -0400, Sir Deadman wrote: >Film onto stainless steel reels and into tank using changing bag. > >Develop in daylight in laundry or kitchen sink. Takes half an hour. Use Xtol >which is non-toxic, lasts months, and makes beautiful negs. > >Hang to dry on $5 sock dryer. > >Into filmscanner!! > >End of story. For those of us who are trying to save our coppers for quality lenses first, is there a less expensive film scanner on the market that still delivers quality scans? I'm using a really inexpensive odd brand flatbed scanner now and am not all that happy with the printing results (though it's not that bad for web publishing use.) A shooting buddy got a transparency adapter for his HP flatbed and the results leave much to be desired. Optimally something that scans negs and slides well for under $500 would fit the bill. Printer wise I'm currently also stuck with a Lexmark z11 that was given me and an HP Deskjet 722c that we bought for my first PC when I moved over from MAC. Is it hopeless? Should I just have Portland Color (http://www.portphoto.com/) make quality scans on CD for me until I can afford a real scanner? Any suggestions graciously welcome. Carpe Luminem, Michael E. Berube