How do I post my photos?

Flotsam

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The APUG gallery is full of people who scan their prints.
Photo.net has lots of folks who take digital photos.
 

David A. Goldfarb

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There's some bias toward scanning prints (or I suppose taking digital photos of the prints if they are too big to scan), but many of us scan negs and transparencies as well.

With the equipment I have, I usually feel that I can approximate the print better from a neg scan than a print scan, and not all that well at that, but others feel strongly about scanning only prints.

Participate in the print exchanges, traveling portfolio, and postcard exchanges. That's where the action is at APUG.
 

jd callow

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I have to disagree with Bob on this. Scanning the neg allows me to get pretty gosh darn close to the print with 1/10 the spotting. Scanned prints can get a lot of glare, look flat, lack shadow detail and seem to collect far more dust.

YMMV
 

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blaughn said:
what do you recommend for scanning 4x5 negs?
Click to expand...

for years i used a cheep-0 umax 2100 U.
but recently got a epson 4870 from the clearence/refurb area
on the epson site. they have some pretty good deals over there (warrenteed too)
 

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I use an AGFA Duoscan T1200 which I've has for years.

If I were doing this commercially, I would get an Imacon 848; I have had a 5x7" slide scanned by such a one and the resolution blew my socks off...
 

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If money is no object, get an Imacon or even better, a drum scanner!

But if you are like the rest of us, especially for 4x5's, you can easily get away relatively cheap flatbed scanners.

Personally, I use a Canon 9950f, which does a great job and is really cheap for a film scanner. 4x5 film is much easier to scan than smaller formats like 35mm, so you can easily get away with a flatbed scanner for it. Plus, you can also use it for scanning prints.

If you want the best you can get out of 35mm, you should invest more - for best results, a lot more. But for web publishing, the Canon does just fine even with 35mm.

Check my gallery - all the images posted there are scans of various film formats with the Canon 9950f, then leveled, spotted, and sharpened in Photoshop. I have a mix of 35mm, 6x6, and 4x5 scans.

-chuck
 
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