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Scanner On the Cheap Suggestions?
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While I shoot a lot of digital I have a bad habit of shooting film for most of my personal work (which, since I’m freelancing, is most of my work).
Back when I was in school the paper I worked with had it’s own Canon scanner and I’ve used Nikon Coolscans quite a bit in the past as well. While those scanners were quite nice and produced images that could be easily printed the size of a wall (which I did once) I can’t afford one my self right now.
The question is this; I know that many of you still shoot film and I’m wondering what you use for cheap scanners? I’m looking probably towards a flatbed as I’d like to make contact sheets with it as well as scan 110 negatives and my 2 1/4’’x3 1/4’’ mini Speed Graphic negatives. I’m talking cheap here, I really just need something that will do contact sheets, web gallery quality and 5’’x7’’ work prints (which don’t need to be that great). Thanks for the help everyone.
-Christopher
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Thu Mar 26 02:21:39 UTC 2009
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If you want something cheap for 35mm film only, take a look at the Plustek line, specifically its OpticFilm 7300 model, for less than $250. It’s slow but can create a very high definition file from film.
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The 4490 is cheap but each scan requires lots of work to look decent.
And the plastic casing is basically a huge statically charged dust collection device. Or maybe that’s my studio.
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The 4490 will not do contact sheets but the 4990 will.
I used the 4490 for a few years and as i started to shoot more film got a lot closer to throwing it in the garbage. Despite this if you have some patience you should be able to make 5×7′s just fine with it. It just really frustrated me how much attention each scan would require sometimes.
If you can, the v700 / v750 aren’t so bad pricewise, and since I bought one of those I’ve been much happier. This is all for 120 film, personally. I feel like that scanner has given me new enthusiasm for using the film that I missed so much.
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Peter,
How would the 4490 not be able to scan a contact sheet but the 4990 would? I’m not quite sure I understand.
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The 4490 only has a scanning window sized for one strip of medium format film on the top, so that’s as big a piece it can scan. The 4490 has a window that is 8×10 or 8.5×11, so it can do the contact sheets.
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I use a Canoscan 8400F and it does really well. They’ve got a Canonscan 9550F too.
www.flickr.com/photos/somnium
Some of my work is here, all negatives scanned with the 8400F.
Peace with you,
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