Digital BW, The Print

I would like to scan some of my best negs, ( BxW and Color ) and
enlarge them to at least 13 x 19 or thereabouts, a majority of them
are 35 mm , it would be nice to scan 120 but I am only working with a
$500.00 budget.

Do I need to spend more ?

What would you recommend ?

I am printing with a 2400.

Thanks Mick.

coastiephoto wrote:
> I would like to scan some of my best negs, ( BxW and Color ) and
> enlarge them to at least 13 x 19 or thereabouts, a majority of them
> are 35 mm , it would be nice to scan 120 but I am only working with a
> $500.00 budget.
> 
> Do I need to spend more ?
> 
> What would you recommend ?
> 
> I am printing with a 2400.
> 
> Thanks Mick.

A Minolta 5400 II if still available otherwise a Nikon 5000.
Both only for 35 mm usable. Get a secondhand Epson 4870 or
4990 for MF if there's still some money left or by the time
you get more money. Don't get an Epson V700 or V750-M right 
now if the color fringing issue isn't sorted out.

Ernst

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           Ernst Dinkla


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I use a Canon LIDE 80scanner and get pretty good results, although i recently sold a Canon Canoscan 8400Scanner to a local photo lab as part of my work and i was very highly impressed with its quality. They've had it for about a month and have only praise to say about it.

Maybe you can check out the prices locally to you.

Cheers.
Sean.

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Subject:	[Digital BW] Scanner recommendations
From:	"coastiephoto" <mickpaul@earthlink.net>
Date:		12-06-2006 09:45

What would you recommend ?