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What are your top 3 films/types for scanning?


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Scanner: KM5400II

Slides: The odd roll of Astia and Provia

Colour neg: Nope

B&W: APX100, HP5+, FP4+, Acros, NP400 and NP1600, XP2 Super - some times. And lately, some 80's vintage TechPan - I found almost afull 150ft roll an old bulk loader.

 

Pulling B&W and scanning: I've tried it with HP5 at EI200 in several develpers, not too successfull I might add. Comes out much better at EI400.

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Fuji's Astia 100F -- highlights and shadow details scan very well, ultra fine grain. You can pump up colours post processing if you wish, but then I prefer natural to oversaturated colours. A superb film. Do compare, if you haven't tried it already. I've tried Kodak's E100G and GX, which are also excellent.

 

Fuji 400 NH or 400 Superia X (amateur version). Great in mixed light. Lovely colours. Grain is present but quite tolerable, even at 8 x 10.

 

I don't have a scanner, and really don't understand how anybody has time to do their own scanning! I have mine done professionally, usually at 24MB per image, which is fine for most publications. If I want a larger size, I can specify that. All images arrive neatly on a CD with thumbnails. The savings in time and quality assurance are worth paying for.

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There have been some very interesting suggestions here and it seems many of you are getting great results from certain films. Thank you all for the input, I hope others have found some use from this thread.

 

Keep the comments comming

 

Tim

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I don't have a scanner, and really don't understand how anybody has time to do their own scanning! I have mine done professionally, usually at 24MB per image, which is fine for most publications. If I want a larger size, I can specify that. All images arrive neatly on a CD with thumbnails. The savings in time and quality assurance are worth paying for.

 

I must re-approach my local lab and try to get some done by them properly. I had some scanning done by them once and they were terrible, tiny resolution, jpeg not tiffs. They even actually loaded the transperency emulsion wrong side up - if you get my meaning, so sometimes doing your own means you have control. I often load a few at a time while doing other things.

 

Tim

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