Digital BW, The Print

Fuji FineScan 5000

Mark
http://www.stillrivereditions.com




On Jan 3, 2008, at 9:13 AM, paulvtt wrote:

> Hi
>
> I read a lot of messageshere, but rarely post. However, the recent
> conversation about scanning and what resolutions are required for
> certain size prints raises a question as to what scanners
> (manufacturer and models) people are using to scan B&W negatives at
> home.
>
> A friend recently asked what he should buy because he wants to scan
> and print negatives. It's been several years sice I looked, so I am
> curious
>
> What arer people using today?
>
> Paulv
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Wells"
> <oaksfield@...> wrote:
>>
>> I have not got involved in this discussion before, but reading this
> post
>> about a budget (flat bed?) scanner out performing shop scans, made
> me think
>> back to my own similar voyage of discovery (to keep things in the
> Homeric
>> mood! <VBG>) It took me some while to discover that most
> Dip'n'Dunks, over
>> here in the UK now use digital print machines even for their
> ordinary budget
>> D&P services. The scans that I was therefore getting on CD were the
> same  as
>> was used by them to prepare a 6"x4" print at 250 - 300 dpi, i.e.
> 1,000-1,200
>> x 1,500-1,800 pixels. Needless to say, even selective (cropped /
> reframed)
>> A4 prints were pretty dire!
>>
>> This was not until I checked out the film services from one of the
> major
>> nationaly photo retailers, however, when I found that they had
> several
>> levels of scan service, with different levels of scan resolution. I
> actually
>> mistyped that as "scam" resolution, which was the major problem,
> and why I
>> bought my dedicated film / neg scanner - the prices rose
> exponentially, with
>> an extra �6 or �7 for having a 36-exp 35mm film scanned in at the
> 3,000 x
>> 2,000 pixels required for a good A4 print!
>>
>> The upshot of the above is that I would ask anyone complaining
> about shop
>> scans to both check the scan resolutions (obviously!) but also
> whether they
>> are asking for what are actually the budget scans used for cheap
> bulk
>> prints, a situation that would be made worse if these scans were
> being
>> merely interpolated to give a higher pixel count.
>>
>> Tony Wells.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "nsams2002" <normsams@...>
>> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 9:06 PM
>> Subject: [Digital BW] Scanning Quality
>>
>>
>> I unpacked and installed an Epson 200 scanner yesterday, (at a cost
> of
>> 100 dollars!!)  Without any adjustments to the image, such as
> levels,
>> etc., using the Epson software, I got a scan vastly superior to
> what I
>> got from the shop.  I was going to post a "before and after" in the
>> Photos file for this list, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do
> it.
>>
>> Norm
>>
>
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