Austin, I noticed you use Leafscan 45. I stepped up into meadium format (6x7) about a half year ago and then my main headache became the inability of quality scanning at my home convenience as I used to with my 35mm by Nikon IV ED. Flatbeds are out of question, I've tried a few of recent machines and also Heidelberg supposedly good "friendly-priced" flatbeds - great dissapoinment on 6x7 slide (most certain due to my addiction to the quality produced by a good film scanners). So I begun to consider selling my leg and arm (and also my wife, car, house and children) :-) for Nikon LS9000 till encountered people's recommendation to go Leafscan 45 route instead. What can you say about this one ? Can it still compete wuality-wise with contemporary machines home-oriented such as Nikon LS9000 ? Is using Leafscan 45 indeed as much bother as I suspect comparative to desktop film scanners ? I suspect Leafscan is Mac only, am I wrong ? I'm PC user.
Any comments on it are appreciated (as well as any hints to Leafscan 45 active user groups). Regards, Alex --- Austin Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ken, > > > -Is hours in the darkroom this still the best way to get > > fantastic B&W pics? > > Not in my opinion...read on... > > > -Should I shoot film then use a film scanner to > > manipulate and print? > > IMO, yes. > > > -Which film? > > For B&W, I shoot Tri-X and Plus-X. > > > -Should I shoot digital then use PhotoShop to make it > > monochrome? > > That, IMO, will not produce near as nice an image as film. > > > -Should I use the same approach for color pics? > > Not sure of the question...but I only have a strong opinion on B&W. > > > -Which is the best process to print a B&W digital pic? > > IMO, Piezography...or at least a quad-tone inkjet printer. > > > Is there an online service to do so? > > B&W, not sure. > > > -I just got the CanoScan 8400f flatbed scanner- will I be > > happy with the results? Should I cough-up another $200 > > and get the CanoScan 9950f or Epson 4870? > > No idea. > > The best B&W results I have seen, has been medium format (or larger) > Plus-X > developed in D-76 1:1, and Tri-X same development. Scanned (I use a > Leafscan 45) and printed using Piezography on an Epson 3000. The > results, > IMO, are better than I was ever able to achieve printing in the > darkroom, > and I had a lot of B&W darkroom experience. The ability to use > setpoints > and tonal curves of the scanned image gives me better images IMO. > > Regards, > > Austin > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe > filmscanners' > or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message > title or body > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
