A modern scanner for 35mm and 120 film

[dokko]

that's a very nice summary.
As mentioned the above image was shot handheld, so in this case at 1/500s because it was plain sunlight, but I have scanned plenty of images handheld at 1/125 or even 1/60 that easily showed detail over 4000ppi.

the point about grain is rather complex...
of course for pure object resolution, we'd want a sharp, very fine grained film and excellent lenses.

But to me the grain itself is a picture element on it's own that I really like, and most scanners show some aliasing if we enlarge a lot.

I scanned some 6x7 Portra800 negative for an exhibition, where the photographer printed 240cm wide, and the 11'000ppi scan made the grain look really nice and organic, while the Imacon 3200ppi scan he had done before looked edgy and pixelated.

I also scanned some 35mm Delta100 that was enlarged to 500cm width. It was shot handheld with an old Nikon lens and not terribly sharp by todays standard, but the detailed grain made the image look special even at this huge size, while a lower scan would have looked fuzzy and pixelated.

 

[Ulrix]

How would one of these with a high end digital camera and an APO enlarging or copy lens compare? Big advantage is individual slide color/exposure/contrast control (if necessary) and if you set up your work flow right you can shoot a slide every 10sec or so... you also have the option of using flash or quartz halogen bulb exposure for whatever that's worth
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I have a setup like this. Negative flatness can be a problem - and just the over all film handling. Flash is great, but too strong, so you have to get ND filters. I have a stack under the diffuser. Worked ok for a job of 2000 framed kodachromes. But again - a good drum scan is more my taste. All depends on what the files are for.

 

[MFstooges]

Here is a very interesting DIY RGB light, mimicking Fuji Frontier's method

RGB light

 

[alanrockwood]

Here is a very interesting DIY RGB light, mimicking Fuji Frontier's method

RGB light

That's pretty cool!

 

[koraks]

Here is a very interesting DIY RGB light, mimicking Fuji Frontier's method

RGB light

That's pretty cool!

Yeah, it is! With some slight modification, that could in fact be used as a light source in an enlarger as well. It would be better than Intrepid's approach.

 

[runswithsizzers]

Here is another DIY RGB light source that looks very cool:

Integrating sphere as a uniform backlight

Hello, I’ve started scanning a collection of old photo negatives, and after some disappointing results using commercial scanners, I decided to go the DSLR route. With the help of this forum and the NLP plugin, I’ve been able to create a nice scanning setup and I got really good results. I...

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