Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/12

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Subject: [Leica] Recent Photos
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Tue Sep 12 16:39:55 2006

Jim. For medium format or larger, film scanners are much more expensive, as 
you would know.
My answer there is a good flatbed with photo pretensions. I have the Epson 
4990. At least with the much bigger trannies this works
fine for me.
But for all of the 35mm you just can't beat a dedicated film scanner for 
quality and speed.
With my basic Nikon I just insert the strip of 6 negs or transparencies then 
preview crop to exactly the full frame, adjust exposure
if needed and save the scan. Then advance to the next frame. So really like 
a darkroom sequence. You are looking at every frame and
checking every exposure.
No way I can be happy with a batch scan. Of course high volume folks will 
have a different opinion on that. But for one or two 36
exp a week, works well for me. Once you scanned them all Photoshop will make 
a lovely contact sheet for you to file with the negs,
quickly.
Then you can sort/cull however you wish and keep the master scans for the 
good stuff. You still have the negs as your preserved
originals.

Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Jim Nichols
Sent: Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:21
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Recent Photos

Hoppy,

I've thought about getting a scanner, but just haven't made the move yet. 
I've got negatives and slides going back to 1952 in 35mm, plus a number of 
4x5 and 5x7 family negatives that my late father-in-law made when he had a 
commercial studio.  Getting a scanner for 35mm only would not solve my LF 
needs, so I just procrastinate.  The older I get, the less ambition I seem 
to have.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA 



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