Terrible Pakon scans, guy who did them says it's my fault

[alvareo]

okay so uh, I've been scanning rolls with my girlfriend's 60D and my nFD 50mm 1.4 handheld on top of the mount because I didn't have money for real scans. Now I do, and I brought them to this guy who has very good reputation, at least on his Facebook ratings, and has a Pakon F-150+. Thing is, they look like this. The guy has said it was, in order, my screen, my exposition, the fact that I pushed it, the (generally well-regarded) lab that developed it. But I'm not so sure: why do I have WAY less contrast with a simple 60D? Why can I recover detail that absolutely isn't there at all with high-grade scanner?

1. Canon 60D + handheld nFD 50mm 1.4 backlight by a laptop screen (hence the pixels; the plastic I put behind wasn't enough, I noticed later), raw developed with Neutral camera profile, exposure +2.10 (photo was taken too dark, hence the noise), Shadows +52, Sharpening +51, and no other changes
2. Pakon F-135+ full-res TIFF scan
3. Same scan developed in Lr: Contrast -100, Shadows +100, Blacks +100

 

[alvareo]

It's not allowing me to edit the post, so I'll make corrections here:

1. Untouched Pakon, 2. 60D, and the one I'm attaching here is 3. the processed Pakon

 

[alvareo]

Thanks all!

 

[pschwart]

Sorry, I wasn't able to display the images images you posted. I'm guessing that's why no one else responded.

 

[calebarchie]

Reputation and facebook don't go well together.

Open images in new tab to view them. They are poor scans by a poor scanner simple as that.