Scanning Darkroom Prints

[Mike Feit]

Hello everyone,

I'm looking to scan a couple of my black and white darkroom prints for use on my personal website.
I've never done this before and have little to no idea which scanner/software combination would be best for the job. The prints in question aren't large at all, only 24 x 18 centimeters.

I'm on a budget, I'm willing to spend 250 Euros tops, is that enough for a decent setup?

Does anybody have experience with this they could share?

Thank you very much in advance

Greetings
Mike

 

[Jim Jones]

Almost any scanner made in the last few decades should be good enough. Perhaps using a digital camera to photograph your prints would be easier. Remember, image quality on a web site is not nearly as critical as it is in a good print.

 

[Chan Tran]

If you only need a couple of scans perhaps find someone that would do it for you is better.

 

[gone]

My last experience w/ this went against what I was thinking it should be. We had to keep the scanner resolution way down, think 200-300 PPI. At higher resolutions it was magnifying the surface of the paper itself, looked pretty bad. It's not a film negative.

 

[JerseyDoug]

I have had good luck "scanning" prints for the internet with my iPhone X. (The Notes app has an amazingly good scan function )

 

[Patrick Robert James]

Almost any scanner made in the last few decades should be good enough. Perhaps using a digital camera to photograph your prints would be easier. Remember, image quality on a web site is not nearly as critical as it is in a good print.

Yup.

 

[VinceInMT]

The advantage of a scanner over a phone is that with the phone you have to deal with lighting and reflection issues.

For scanning flatwork, I use a hand-me-down Epson V500 and the Epson software that I downloaded from their site. It also has the ability to scan film and transparencies 35mm and 120).

 

[Brendan Quirk]

The Epson scanner is fine - it is the dust that is the killer!