The price of Nikon film scanner is going higher (even used) since Nikon
discontinued all film scanners production. I'm using V700 for 120 & 4x5
film scanning, it's OK. But scanning for 135 film is very bad. Yes, very
bad, compare the quality with my Nikon IV ED. I do trust no any one flatbed
scanner to scan 135 film with great quality as good as a real film scanner.
I do fully give up 135 film shooting since I will go to enlarging prints in
darkroom, and I sold my Nikon IV ED scanner. Besides, a reality, digital is
better 135 film, quality, convenient, dynamic range .............
For digital slide films copying, my private, I don't think the quality is
good. It's very hard to control & maybe a lot of editing to be processing.
Some workshop in China maybe a help with high-grade scanner, such as
Hasselbald. There is about RMB0.50/MB, may be a consideration.
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Michael
On 22 June 2012 19:57, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Two days ago when we were discussing about film scanning, I tried to wake
> up
> my 4000ED to run some testes, I haven't use the scanner since Oct 2010. To
> my suprise my computer didn't see the scanner attached, it served me
> faultlessly for many years with over 30K scans and now it seems decided to
> retire. I open the case, disassembled the mother board, reconnect the
> cables
> then power it up again, at first it was ok but after a few scans it failed
> again. I went through the above cycles a few times and finally gave up...
> :-(
>
> I wasn't very worry as I was expecting I can easily get another 4000ED at
> very low price as most peoples have switched to DSLR. Unfortunately the
> ebay
> prices were suprisingly high and repair (if available) cost won't be cheap
> either.
>
> I started to digitize my personal films some years ago, over 95% of the
> negatives were done but the project was stopped for some reasons. Now
> leaving a thousand or two slides to be completed.
>
> I'm not so happy with the scanning quality of my Epson 4870. I tried using
> 5D II for copying negative two years ago (at that time we got an order of
> scanning 10K negatives) but the post adjustment and dusting was very time
> consuming so we finally just stick with scanning. I think it is time to
> consider the 5D II workflow again, this time the target is slide so it
> could
> be easier.
>
> Here is my setup and the preliminary results looked promising.
>
> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/P6226848.jpg
>
> Lens is OM 80/4 with 5D II on Olympus focusing rail and copy stand. It was
> also my first time using the EOS Utility to control the camera, it was fun!
> Liveview can be seen on monitor so focusing can be done comfortably!
>
> C.H.Ling
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