Which scanner for b&w web galleries

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Hi, could you tell me which scanner in reasonable price will be good for me?

- only 35mm
- only b&w
- just for preview and maybe web galleries
- print will be done in darkroom

I want something that won't be an overkill. Epson 4490 or is it too much for my needs?
 
I've got a second-hand Canon FS4000, it's 35mm only, cheaper than a Coolscan and gives pretty nice results. I use Vuescan with it, which makes it quite painless.
 
thegman said:
I've got a second-hand Canon FS4000, it's 35mm only, cheaper than a Coolscan and gives pretty nice results. I use Vuescan with it, which makes it quite painless.
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It's unfortunately too expensive for me. I'm thinking about something in 100-200$ price range.
 
Avotius - good idea but I don't have any digital camera

Thegman - I think it also depends on skills to make a good scan so flickr won't help me as results form the same scanner can be different. Apart from that there are also other things to consider, like scanner reliability and ease of use.
 
buy a cheap flatbed and scan the print.

If all you want is a web gallery, and you are committed to darkroom printing, this is perfectly acceptable. You can't, of course, go the other way.
 
Thanks Degruyl, that's a good idea. I'm going to buy an englarer in june so I want something to preview my negatives till then. I guess I will try contact prints.
 
I use an old Epson 2450 flatbed scanner and it does a really good job. The advantage of it is that it will also do MF and 4x5 in case you ever shoot it. W/ 4x5, and sometimes w/ 120 film, I often get a scan good enough to send out for a good print. It does a good enough job w/ 35mm to where you can certainly use it to proof your negs, which is what I'm doing now as I sold the printer and big scanner and am going over to enlarger printing. You can also scan a strip of 35mm negs at once and break them up later in PS, so that speeds things up a bit.

Here's the 35mm film strip scan, a shot from 120 film, and one from a 4x5. Paid $100 for the scanner and it's been great. The 35mm scan looks flat because it hasn't had any post processing.
 
Just for 35mm and cheap? Then IMHO the Plustek range cannot be beat, should be able to get a mint 7200/7300i for that sort of money on eBay.
 
Flatbeds are great for multi-tasking. A jack of all trades, but master of none. Flats if you can excuse the generalization, do well with photo scanning and Medium Format Film. They generally will produce reasonable results if you are viewing on the PC at 4x6" or less, but you really can't beat a dedicated negative scanner.

I have a flatbed which I thought would do the trick, and then had to get a dedicated 35mm film scanner.

Basically, they're all pretty good depending on how "anal :D" you might be. Here's a second vote for Plustek. I picked one up less than 2 months ago for $214 new from Amazon.com.
 
I don't want to start a new thread since this question is pretty much related to this thread.

How does the V300 do scanning slides for web work? I produce very few images that I ever feel the need to print, so I'd like to get a scanner to put up a photo gallery (so my friends will stop asking me to see my pictures) and if I'm ever happy enough with the results I'll have it professionally scanned and printed.
 
Kyle said:
I don't want to start a new thread since this question is pretty much related to this thread.

How does the V300 do scanning slides for web work? I produce very few images that I ever feel the need to print, so I'd like to get a scanner to put up a photo gallery (so my friends will stop asking me to see my pictures) and if I'm ever happy enough with the results I'll have it professionally scanned and printed.
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I feel the same way....just something to get them up there...show off to friends...then IF the picture is good enough, do some prints in the darkroom....anyone?

-Daniel
 
I have both film and flatbed scanners. The flatbed will do all you need resolution wise for contact use and you can scan prints too. Most of the flatbeds with transparency abilities can handle about 4x enlargement. You will waste more time and money on a dedicated film scanner when you are dedicated to darkroom printing.
 
cidereye said:
Just for 35mm and cheap? Then IMHO the Plustek range cannot be beat, should be able to get a mint 7200/7300i for that sort of money on eBay.
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+1 on the PlusTek 7300 The 'i" has an upgraded software with it. The 7300 has Silver Fast Plus, but will do multi-scan (up to 8), and has the Scratch remover software too. has a native up to 7200 dpi
 
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