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02/13/2007 10:42:29 AM · #1 |
I have thousands upon thousands of negatives from my days in the Navy. I have just recently began scanning some of them with a Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 II. I would appreciate any feedback on my scans so far. I am not necessarily looking for comments on the photos as much as I am for the scan and editing. Please provide feedback on ways to create better scans!
Scans from Film
Thanks,
JD
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02/13/2007 11:07:19 AM · #2 |
I had similar issue in that I have about 5,000 slides of what I called keepers at the time, but luckily I kept the throw always which with digital editing can be brought back to life. So I have about 10,000 slides to go through, and that would literally take years to scan. So I built a slide coping rig so that I could use my camera and go through them more quickly as an editing step, and scan the best of the lot. The thing is the quality is high enough that I've usually just gone with the camera file.
My set up is a Nikon ES-1 slide copier & Nikon 50mm f1.8 with 32mm of extension. Since the ES-1 was designed for 35mm film coverage I had to extend the distance between the ES-1 and the front of the lens. I did this by breaking several cheap UV/Skylight filters keeping just the rings. Then I use my speedlight/flash connected with a TTL cord aimed at the front of the ES-1 for lighting. I'm at work now, but will post an image of my set-up when I get home, but it is not Nikon specific and could be used with your 50mm or possibly your 100mm macro with more distance between the lens and unit.
I've been able to photograph from 2-8 per minute depending on whether I need to add any flash compensation and reshoot. It is MUCH faster than scanning, even if you only used it just for the sort.
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02/13/2007 11:23:01 AM · #3 |
A little hard to really judge from web-sized images, but it does look like you're getting very good scans. Are these negs, or color positives? I suspect they're negs, because color positives tend to have much more scanner noise in very dense shadows. Negatives are easier, they are almost never as dense.
I too use the DSLR copying technique, but I've also used an older Nikon (LS-30) scanner. The advantage of the scanner, of course, is that it can acquire RGBI and do dust/scratch removal much faster than is possible manually. The advantage of the DSLR is purely speed; even when editing is factored in, the speed advantage is substantial. |
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