C.H.Ling wrote:
> My current workflow for the thousands of negatives I'm working on is 16 bit
> TIFF Scan (Nikon scan for the one with less fading and Vuescan for the
> serious one)-
What a daunting task! I'm embarking on the same sort of job, although
it's mixed negs and slides, with a few other formats thrown in.
I finally found a like new Canon 9950F scanner for a reasonable price. I
bought it specifically for this task. It will allow me to scan five
strips of negs at a time, 12 slides at once and the 6x6 and 6x9 negs
from the old family album. The prospect of feeding all those strips into
the film scanner one at a time, and slides four at a time was really
daunting.
The full 4800 dpi output is, in the end, just slightly - very slightly,
pixel peeping - lower in quality on contemporary film. but I don't think
it's a difference I'll ever see in a display or print. Most of the
archive is older film, and a quick test shows that the scanner resolves
more than the film, and more than the camera/lenses that made some of
the images.
I'll learn more as I go through the process, but I think some of the
oldest 35mm stuff won't require more than 2400dpi to capture all that's
there. I don't think the 6x9 shots from dad's folding Kodak hold as much
detail as my later 35mm images. 600dpi gets it all.
Most of the negs are separated from their prints. Many prints are
missing. Many are so poor that I am sure there are good images whose
full quality I've never seen scattered about. So I'm pretty excited to
learn that the CanoScan software does a good, quick job of scanning a
full film holder to produce proof images and an index image. I can then
easily skip the junk in the final scans.
Moose
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