Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 2003-09-08 jerryleh@pacbell.net (Jerry Lehrer) thoughtfully wrote: >As you may realize, I know nowt about digital scanning, but >I would imagine that a silver image should be easier to scan >than a dye and silver image such as Kodachrome. Are scanners >set up to primarily scan color negatives? If so, then a B&W C41 >would be the film of choice. Boy, I remember a discussion somewhere, perhaps here, that talked about grain aliasing and the type of scanner being used - that the CCD scanners like the SuperCoolScan 4000 from Nikon doesn't do as good a job on silver as it does on the C41 dye processes. I'm starting to beleive that although I've not gone to the trouble to find one of the good Polaroid scanners. Well, now that I think of it I can't since I think they are all SCSI and I no longer have a SCSI adaptor that works for any of my computers, having shifted entirely to FireWire. Is there someone out there who can address this? It might be relevant to Phong. TCN400 scans really well for me. AND it has the advantage that scratch removal software works just fine with it while it doesn't with silver films. Adam - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html