[filmscanners] Scanning B+W negatives

2005-01-05 Thread Chris Aitken
Happy New Year All, I have finally got round to developing my first B+W films - an Ilford FP4+ an HP5+. I have viewscan, and many webpages recommend different ways of scanning B+W negs. Does anyone here shoot Ilford B+W, and scan regularly? What settings do you use? I intend to shoot a lot of

[filmscanners] RE: Scanning B+W negatives

2005-01-05 Thread Chris Aitken
in the dark ;-) Some of the nature of the answer you request will depend upon how you plan of scanning your negs. Do you have a dedicated film scanner, or a flatbed with transparency ability, and what scanner and software will you be using? Art Chris Aitken wrote: Happy New Year All, I

[filmscanners] RE: Archiving???!!!

2004-12-09 Thread Chris Aitken
Most big banks use tapes as backup medium. I am not sure if that is because they are more reliable, or just cheaper. DDS tapes (essentially a data version of DAT) are about £2.50 each in the UK. Ebay yeilds a fair few DDS tape units for sale (SCSI). DDS units have 2 capacities - the first

[filmscanners] RE: Flatbed vs film scanner

2004-11-24 Thread Chris Aitken
The difference is noticable. The Minolta delivers sharper pictures with more contrast and more details. If you want I can upload a test picture to my homepage to show the difference. Yes please. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is

[filmscanners] Software dust removal

2004-11-09 Thread Chris Aitken
Hi All, Further to my previous messages I have obtained a Scan Dual I on trial. I have tried it with the Vuescan trial version (and also the Minolta drivers - so this must be a later model that works on XP). Although my negatives were clean and visually dist free, there must be a fair amount of