35mm film scanners that scan the entire roll at once?

[danielnorton]

I generally take my film to the lab, get contact sheets and then scan the best negs on my epson 3200 photo. Does a pretty good job on 35mm and a very god job on Medium and large format.

What I'm thinking of doing is having the lab do develop only and not cut the rolls and investing in a scanner like the

Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 ED Film & Slide Scanner

This will save me about $10 a roll, so I figure it will pay for itself quickly if it's any good.

Anyone use a scanner that does that (entire rolls) Either the Nikon or other?

Of course I will keep the epson 3200 for my medium format stuff.

thanks!

Daniel

 

[darkkavenger]

Wow I didn't knew this exists! I'm going to look this up later on the net. How's the Zorki doing, Daniel?

 

[danielnorton]

pretty cool

pretty cool

Alas, it's still half taken apart in a box :bang:

When I have another weekend free I plan on having another go at it, The I50 lens that came with it though is doing well on my bessa and sometime another zorki :angel:

I am a pretty bad internet researcher, but i;m looking as well, if you find anything useful, please post a link here and I'll do the same..


best

Daniel

 

[rich815]

Daniel, I have an LS-4000 and have been using it for about 3-years now for all my 35mm scanning. About 6 months ago I was really getting down on scanning 6-frame strip by 6-frame strip and bought a roll adapter on eBay for something like $250 or so. It is a dream come true. I now get my whole roll develop only, do not cut, come home in the evening after work, feed in the strip (I use Vuescan by the way as NikonScan is something awful, IMHO), preview and tweak slightly the first couple frames, then set it up to scan the whole roll and walk away. About an hour or so later I have all frames scanned in ready for post-scan processing (and sometimes little of that is needed), plus a "contact sheet" .bmp file (Vuescan does that). You can print the contact sheet or examine the thumbs on the screen. Great scanner, great roll adapter. I recommend both highly.

 

[danielnorton]

Rich,

Thanks for the info, that was all I needed to get the GAS going.. ok, so this is next on my list! Quick question, when you scan the whole roll, do you do it in high res(enough to make a print) or basically just enough for contact sheets, then rescan the best high res later?

Daniel

 

[rich815]

I do not generally print my 35mm stuff very large so I have been doing my scans at 2000. Was also doing that because I had space and memory issues. But just a week ago I upgraded both and will be now scanning for "archival" purposes and going full bore at 4000. You can also toss those files you do not like later to free up space but it's nice to have them all there then to go back and try to find an exact frame for scanning again later. 4000 will add some time to the scan but not much. Any further questions please ask....

 

[PaulDalex]

Rich815,
with my Minolta 5400 it takes a long time to warm up (not so the Nikon as far as I remember) and because it picks up a lot of noise I am forced to use at least 4x pass to kill some noise, which extend the scanning time substantially. How behaves the Nikon noisewise? Do you use multi-pass scanning?
Regards
Pistach

 

[rich815]

Pistach, no no warm up time needed and I rarely use multi-pass. Tried it a few times and saw little benefit and it adds so much time. I find it easier to kill noise (when it is a factor) with NeatImage.

One more cool thing I want to mention. With Vuescan having the "contact sheet" feature after I scan the whole roll, I print the contact sheet, then cut the negs into strips of 6, put them in a negative page and clip the contact sheet to the back of the neg page. Easy to reference and puruse for later when the contact sheet and neg sheet are together.