Alex, expect a war after your post :-) This is a long debated topic: last thread I followed ended with (more or less) the agreement that high-end scanners (drum scanners) work better with slides, whereas prosumer scanners give better results with negatives (of course, slides have the advantage of providing a visual reference for color calibration, but that's another matter). In my experience I can confirm that both the Nikon LS-30 and the Canon FS4000, especially for contrasty images, give MUCH better results with negs. I have never even seen a drum scanner, so I'll let someone else confirm or reject the other part of the statement. Anyway, if you already own a scanner and don't plan to change it, you may want to test your equipment, since that's what you're going to deal with.
Alessandro Pardi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ One day I'll have a website. Until then, you can see some of my work here: http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=189247 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Zabrovsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: luned́ 15 aprile 2002 13.19 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [filmscanners] Scanning negs vs. slides > > > Hi guys. > I just had a conversation with some experienced user of IV ED. > During the talk, he mentioned that once he acquired the > scanner and started to built his archive, he turned to negatives solely claiming > that he found the results to be better scanning negatives in case of wide > dynamic range captured on the film. He states that the image with > featuring high contrast (night scenic for example) will be > rendered much better by the scanner in terms of the details in dark, while > highlights are still well preserved, whilst with slides often the dark > details are missing being still resolved visually on light table under loupe. > Is that correct ? > I usually prefer to shoot slides for anything except people-related stuff, > but if is opinions have much to reflect the reality, I would > probably switch to negatives for outdoors also. > > Regards, > Alex Z > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with > 'unsubscribe filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the > message title or body > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body