At 05:35 PM 11/4/1999 -0500, Ron wrote:
>My question is: What photo scanners are members of the list using to
>scan their 35mm negs or positives? I'm going to be attending Hunt
>Photo's 23rd annual trade show tomorrow here in Bean town, USA,
>(Boston) and will probably be making a purchase so hurry up and
>respond!!
Ron, I may get to the show, take off early from work. I recently got
the Nikon LS-2000. Compared to other scanners I have seen, the
automatic color correction is very good, having tried a number of
different negatives (and slides). As with all scanners, the full scale
dynamic range (density) is the limiting thing on most scanners. The
LS-2000 will clip on some areas.
ON scanning in general and dynamic range clipping: One interesting
phenomenon I have observed in a recent sunset slide I scanned is that
the individual colors may start to clip in different parts of the
photograph, such that you will get color contours. For example, around
the sun, the red would start to clip, leaving blue and green, which
produces a very pronounced yellow. The effect to the eye is seen as
color shifting. You can see an example at:
http://users.tp.net/wayne/
I'm just now getting around to starting a web page, so bare with me
while I figure things out.
Overall, I like the LS-2000. When the density range gets to 4.0, that
would be great. The LS-2000 is suppose to be 3.6, but I think 3.4 is
more realistic. The pixel density only matters in very large blow-ups.
The density range is the most important, in my opinion.
Wayne
Hopkinton, MA
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