Phillip wrote:
>
> To all die hard neg film fans,
>
> May your next purchase be a reasonable quality film scanner.
> I just got
> my hands on a new Minolta Quick Scan 35 Plus and its allowing me to
> appreciate some of my old negatives as never before. This baby loves
> that neg film especially the ASA 25. I'm seeing things that the mini
> labs forgot to print. Wow those old Zuiko lens are even
> sharper than I
> realized. Scan the negs at about 2880 dpi and you'll re-discover 35mm
> photography.
> Scanning slides takes a litle more practice with this
Interesting, I find scanning transparencies to be less problem than negs
(Microtek Scanmaker 35t-plus).
> machine. Contrast
> builds much faster and also I'm used to seeing my slides (shot for
> clients ofcourse) scanned on a $100,000 Crossfield Drum Scanner.
> However I've never had to many negs scanned except to an occasional
> Kodak Photo CD and the quality was never that impressive. However I
> really enjoy this little Minolta scanner for these negs.
> It's going to
> be fun & inexpensive to have my Kodak Gold processed for $2.95 for 36
> exposure roll. Long live Kodak Gold & the inexpensive film scanners.
> Digital cameras have a very long way to come. Zuikos still rule.
>
I you don't already know about it the following site has some good scanning
info:
http://www.scantips.com/
Wayne Harridge
Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Louvre/6152/
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