A New Film Friend!

[readingr]

Axle,

Nice pictures - I like them a lot - especially the tree stump.

Question 1 - has some of the contrast been lost in the scanning process?
Question 2 - what scanner do you use - I am looking at scanning all of my old negatives which are B&W, Colour Negative, and Slide film and finding it difficult to pick a scanner so any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Roger R.

[Axle]

Axle,

Nice pictures - I like them a lot - especially the tree stump.

Question 1 - has some of the contrast been lost in the scanning process?
Question 2 - what scanner do you use - I am looking at scanning all of my old negatives which are B&W, Colour Negative, and Slide film and finding it difficult to pick a scanner so any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Roger R.

Q1: That always happens, I usually bring it into Ps to adjust the levels to get the contrast back. So these have been adjusted but the contrast is correct for the film based on a Darkroom contact sheet print.
Q2: Epson V700, but if you're going for a new one, look at the V800.

[readingr]

Thanks,

Will go and look at the V800 - thing that frightens me is the quantity that need scanning :-)

Roger R.

[Axle]

thing that frightens me is the quantity that need scanning :-).

I know the feeling, I did a similar project for my grandfather scanning in all his and his wife's slides. Here's what I did, I went to my parents, gave them a light table and a good 2,000 slides, and said 'sort these, find the ones with people or the ones you want to see digitized' cut the number down to ~100. Took me a couple weeks to get it done.