Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, help me out here. I scanned some 35mm negs on my old Epson flatbed several years ago, but have forgotten what software I used. The last time I tried to scan a strip of 35 negs, I tried VueScan, and it activated the scanner, but I could never make it give me the option to select a negative, or convert from a negative to positive image. What is the best way to get there? I don't think the Epson software offers me the negative option, either. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film? >I think an Epson flat bed is most what we need to connect our previous >sheet > film and even medium format existence to our here and now digital internet > world. > I think scan a "large" neg on even a less pricey flat bed and run it up > the > flagpole on a gallery or website and its going to blow the 35mm stuff > right > out of the water. > Even if it was full frame and shot with Aspherical Apochromatic glass or > had > jacked up megapixels. The richness still comes though and the fact that it > comes from much more real estate. > Acreage Acreage Acreage. > The stuff just has more weight. > The ponderousness of setting up a sheet film shot comes through. > > -- > Mark R. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > > >> From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:20:45 -0600 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] The final gasp of MF film? >> >> >> On Feb 15, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> Though the output one sees in scans one makes or downrezes for an email >>> to a >>> friend or the LUG gallery or any gallery or our website is not going to >>> be >>> about the wonderful crispiness at the edge of each grain particle. >> >> For those rare purposes (of needing a decent digital copy of a film >> negative) >> I simply copy it with the 100 mm apo-macro-elmarit on the DMR >> (or in the case of sheet film - scan it on my epson flat bed >> though the 11x14 and 12x20 sheet film doesn't fit there either). >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >