jameshays1 Posted December 11, 2006 Share #1 Posted December 11, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) After scanning 35mm negs on my Minolta Scan Dual IV for a year, I've decided I just don't have the time to do it anymore. I called my local lab and they quoted me $20 per roll for high resolution scans saved to disk and a contact sheet. With as many rolls as I shoot, this will add up quick. Obviously there are 1-hour labs that you can get your images on disc but the quality has been disappointing. Anyone know of other options? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rolo Posted December 12, 2006 Share #2 Posted December 12, 2006 Find a friendly 1 hour lab with a Noritsu scanner using LED technology. Ask them to create a profile for you with none of the consumer crap in the settings. That means NO adjustments; no sharpening; no levels/curves; no saturation; ..... Just straight scans at medium, say 18 mb file size. Pay them £1 a roll and you may be amazed at the quality you can obtain. It's the settings they use for regular customers to give their images a bit of punch that spoils your input files. If you need a big scan for any reason, then scan those few yourself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted December 12, 2006 Share #3 Posted December 12, 2006 Sounds pretty cheap to me. Most of the labs I use in the UK (Metro, Primary, etc.) charge at least £20 (approximately $40) for 35mm develop, contact and low resolution scans to CD. Rolo, any recommendations for particular labs? I rarely (if ever) shoot any colour neg now but I might change my mind if there is a good low cost option for develop/scan in the UK. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolo Posted December 12, 2006 Share #4 Posted December 12, 2006 Sounds pretty cheap to me. Most of the labs I use in the UK (Metro, Primary, etc.) charge at least £20 (approximately $40) for 35mm develop, contact and low resolution scans to CD. Rolo, any recommendations for particular labs? I rarely (if ever) shoot any colour neg now but I might change my mind if there is a good low cost option for develop/scan in the UK. It's a local thing. Knowing what I know now, if I was to move to your street I would phone Noritsu and ask where they have machines installed locally in Walmart, Tesco, Costco ..... that offer really cheap pricing. The guys in these labs just follow a routine and providing they have been there a few years will care about their customers. They change chemicals as required and my lab will do a paper check before they run a set of prints. I don't think they develop films any different than the trainees at the Pro Labs. Scanning is a mechanical process providing there is no intervention and the £30,000 LED scanners are top notch. I started doing it to get a set of screen proof images and found that the quality was good enough for 95% of my needs. Same with CN B&W processing. I never order prints until I select them on viewing. The cost of putting colour film through my Leicas becomes almost negligible especially as I buy film from 7DayShop. My lab changed to a Photo-Me French built machine for a short while and my images went down the hole. The scans were really, really bad due to over-sharpening and settings couldn't be overridden. Fortunately, they sent it back. One thing that they won't do because of the time involve is scanning and retaining as a negative image. I would prefer to use PhotoShop to invert to positive. There's a story about MF film as well that is for another day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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