Digital BW, The Print

Hi Wendel,

I assume your improvement comes in better focusing by holding 
the MF film flat in the glass carrier, is that right?  I also have a 
Nikon 8000 and find that getting the film relatively flat in the 
standard carrier is really fussy and not always successful.  I have 
even selected softer focus parts of the scan and applied extra 
USM to match the rest of the image in a few cases or rescanned.
Does the glass carrier have any problems such as slight 
degradation of sharpness, newton rings or other artifacts? 
Would there be any difference between B&W negs and color 
transparencies in this regard?   And do you know what the 
difference is between the regular glass-covered holder versus 
the glass-covered rotating holder?   I would be interested to 
know what experience others have had with glass carriers and 
other methods to get good scanner focusing.  Many thanks!

Tom Andrews
www.wildlandart.com 


> This is very good advice. I have the Epson 2450 and a Nikon 
8000. I got the
> Epson for scanning 4"x5" and larger but I have also tried it out 
on my 6x7cm
> negs and the results are quite good. The Nikon is definitely 
better but it
> is hard to say that it is $2500 better. I happy with the Nikon but 
only
> after I invested an extra 350.00 in a rotated glass carrier. For 
medium
> format the glass carrier is an absolute necessity. I wish I had 
know that
> before wasting time on scans with the non-glass carrier.
> 
> Wendel
> 
> On 5/31/02 5:44 PM, "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@e...> 
wrote:
> 
> > Don,
> > 
> > The dedicated film medium format film scanners will give 
you some impressive
> > results. It really comes down to $$$ vs. quality as usual.
> > 
> > If money is tight, people have been reporting very good things 
on this list
> > and elsewhere about the Epson 2450 which will scan 
negatives up to 4"x9".
> > This seems to be equaling or bettering flatbeds in the  
$1,000 to $1,500
> > range.
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