Scott Loveless wrote: > Adam Maas wrote: >> Flatbeds suck for 35mm unless you go high-end and get ANR inserts. Then >> they are merely adequate. >> >> But they're very popular for scanning 120/220 as dedicated solutions >> cost a lot. > > My scanner, a Canon 8400F, is crap for color print film. The colors are > awful, but I think this is probably due to Canon's horrid software, > rather than the hardware. Black and white film, 35mm or 120, is easy to > scan. Slides are a gamble. Dense slides are difficult at best. And > some films, as I stated in another reply, are easier to scan than > others. I have made 8x10 prints from 35mm scans that look fine on a > wall. They don't hold up so well under a loupe. 120 is most definitely > easier to work with but 35mm isn't impossible. > >
I had colour issues with my Epson 4490 until I started using the canned profiles. That solved almost all my issues except magenta casts in Provia & Velvia scans and the occasional wonky colour in neg scans (usually involving images with a large amount of neutral grey). The latter is usually easy to fix. The biggest problem I had with 35mm scans is film flatness. Until I started using ANR inserts it was simply impossible to keep the film flat in the holder. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
