4.2 DMAX, this allows it to do adequate scans of chrome film, even when the negatives are a bit dense. 5000ppi lets its produce a 30ish megapixel image from scans, big enough to cover my 13×19 max print size at greater than 300PPI (thumbs up). It has other specs, you can read them on your website of choice.
I can only imagine how good film scanning would be today if Nikon was still making scanners. Epson is a fine company and they make fine printers, but even their newest V850 makes film of most formats look just a little mushy. I just wanna shoot my M4 and bring those brilliant little pieces of Portra, Delta, or Fujichrome to the computer with all the potential I know they contain. Even the Coolscan is a cool $3000 dollars on the used market. The current Hasselblad X1 and X5 scanners are literally a decade old, based on technology older than that, and still come with Firewire. Investment in scanning technology has almost completely stalled about 10 years ago. But over the years, everyone decided to pitch their Hasselblad’s for cameras like the Canon 10D, embracing the dream of 6 megapixels. Sharp, detailed scans with a great DMAX for those dense chromes. It was no flextight (and don’t even chime in Drum people), but it was very, very good.
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The Coolscans represented Nikon putting their full weight into making a proper desktop scanner.
This was in college, when I had access to a Nikon Coolscan 9000. In truth I was able to achieve scans that rivaled my optical prints at one point. Well the answer to that is “market forces” happened. So I wouldn’t blame someone for concluding that film, and specifically 35mm film, gives a (dare I say it) vintage look. It’s certainly true that when you put that SD card in your 5k iMac, go into Lightroom and hit “Z”, those pictures look mighty sharp and smooth! The Sony 42mp BSI sensor is some kind of black magic pulled from the future when compared to some film scans in my library. The conventional wisdom is that a digital capture makes a 35mm capture look like the film image has Vaseline on the lens. I never said, “oh gee, 35mm isn’t that sharp.” But now, digital is for the most part a mature way to make pictures. When I was shooting film and printing in the darkroom, digital cameras were these expensive experiments that were mostly to be avoided.
Bad scanners can introduce poor color, soften details, a very high amount of noise, and or ugly digital artifacts. It frequently does not come through unscathed. Scanning is often the bottleneck through which film, a high quality imaging product, must pass. There are several Plustek opticfilm 120 scanners are selling on ebay new by Adorama and B&H for $2000 but people still buying Nikon 80 used ones.Leica M4 – 35mm F2 Biogon – Fuji Superia 400 Also focus can not be adjusted on this scanner, I am not into scanners and I am do not know if it is a problem with focus adjustment but all I need is a good and reliable machine to scan my negs Few people had focussing issues, and as far as Iv read Silverfast soft has some issues also. ( can not afford Coolscan 9000 even used.)Īt this moment I read about Plustek Opticfilm 120 and it seems to be a great scanner for $2000 but very few people using it, and not that many test reviews to trust. Nikon Coolscan 8000 also has cheap plastic film holders and as far as I understand can not be use with glass film holders to keep film flat. Or maybe wet scanning? But it did not work for me, May be I should have used betterscanning adjustable holders. Film holders was cheap plastic, so I return it back. I also would like to scan some other negatives to post online.Īnyway I have several options like Epson V750 used Nikon Coolscan 8000 and what most interests me is Plustek opticfilm 120Ībout 6 month ago I bought Epson V750 in scanned some 120 negatives but the result was horrible all comes out soapy all out of focus, pink lines on the sides color was off etc. And I need to scan negatives and print for local show, I plan to print 70x70cm and 70x80cm for 6x7 film or something like that. I need help with buying a film scanner, I use two cameras Rolleiflex 2.8f and Mamiya 7 so my film is color negative 120 Kodak Portra 400 and 160 only.