Common sense point... :-) ... I only once considered scanning 35 film with a flat bed scanner. It was a high-end (for the time) HP something or the other. I looked at what the add on attachment cost vs. the price of a dedicated film scanner which was something like $100 for the attachment vs. $350 for the dedicated film scanner. The choice was obvious based on the value I was getting and film scanners were a pretty nifty item.
There's the right tool for every job and using an all-purpose flat-bed scanner that was not really designed to scan film as a film scanner is not using the right tool for the job, as anecdotal evidence bears out. If that's all one has, then OK, but in a general discussion about film scanning, any talk about how bad or hard your experience was, is sort of missing the point. It's like telling how hard it is to pound in a woodscrew with a tack hammer. Certainly one can probably accomplish it, but it's not representative of how to drive in a screw. Tom C. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott > Loveless > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 8:57 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Shooting film (Velvia) > > Adam Maas wrote: > > Velvia and Kodachrome are too high contrast to get good scans on low-end > > flatbed scanners and older mid/high-end flatbeds. The scanners simply > > don't have the DMax to handle these emulsions. > > I'll agree with that. I've never shot Velvia, but Kodachrome is nearly > impossible to scan with a low-end flatbed. If the photo doesn't have > dense shadows I can get a scan suitable for web viewing. That's about > as good as it gets. Astia, Provia and E100 are much more forgiving. > > -- > Scott Loveless > http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the > directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
