Epson 4490 for $95.

Dan, I use AN glass with a Betterscanning film holder for 120 negs, placing the emulsion side down. I've even obtained good scan placing the neg directly on the glass, with the AN glass on top. I think the 4490 must be an autofocus, rather than fixed focus scanner. (Can anyone confirm?) I'm happier with the Nikon software. You can use the marquee (sp?) tool to select the frame, best just inside the border. Auto exposure is pretty good but you might want to adjust the black, white and mid points manually, and save to a tiff file. 2400 dpi is pretty good for 6x6 negs, 14 bit greyscale. Then off to photoshop for dust spotting, and lightroom for fine tuning the crop and tones.
 
First -good- scan with new 4490.

First -good- scan with new 4490.

Hi ChrisN,

Thanks for your suggestions! Using Vuescan, I've taken 4490 off "Auto", set Black point 1%, White point 0%, Curve low .62, Curve high .65, Brightness .91, TMax 400, CI = .40, 16 Bit Grey, 2400 DPI. All of this selected by playing with the settings and "eyeballing" the levels.

Question:
I have Photoshop Elements and Vuescan, should I also get Lightroom?
What is that anyway and where do I get it?

Thanks,
-Dan

Here is the resulting scan, sized down in Photoshop to 550 width, unsharp masking applied. Looks better to my eye, obviously.
 

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Color, too.

Color, too.

Hasselblad 500EL/M, 40mm Zeiss Distagon C (non-T*), Fuji 800Z, Vivitar 283w/PhotoflexXTC.
 

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Last One For Today.

Last One For Today.

Plaubel Makiflex Standard LF SLR, 150mm F2.8 Schneider Xenotar lens wide-open, 6x9 Efke 100 6x9 Cutfilm in a Plaubel Makina Single-exposure plate, developed in ADOX Borax MQ.
 

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When I saw the pic Robin had uploaded I knew I had seen something similar before. I visited the same place while I working as a cruiseship photographer. Her is my shot on 35mm..

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Stuart John said:
When I saw the pic Robin had uploaded I knew I had seen something similar before. I visited the same place while I working as a cruiseship photographer. Her is my shot on 35mm..
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Glad to have jogged your memory Stuart.:)
For those wondering about the location of such a photogenic seaside town - it's Honfleur, in Normandy, France.

Cheers, Robin
 
Nokton48 said:
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Question:-+
I have Photoshop Elements and Vuescan, should I also get Lightroom?
What is that anyway and where do I get it?
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Adobe Lightroom is another software from Adobe, aimed principally at photographers, and is a good alternative to Photoshop which has many capabilities that photographers don't need. Lightroom (or LR) also acts as a catalog for your digitised images and lets you assign keywords, to make it easier to locate a particular image file. I find it very good, although I'm still using an early version; also using Photoshop PS2. I'll eventually upgrade LR. For dust spotting I find the Photoshop tools better, but for everything else (cropping, adjusting tones, sharpening) I prefer Lightroom.

Some of my best photos have been scanned with the Epson 4490 and it has produced quite reasonable digital images for me.

(Hasselblad 500, 150/4 Sonnar, HP5)

Man and Machine by Another Chris, on Flickr
 
Looks like he is painting almost the same scene. I have only been there once and that was only for around half a day. I have to dig out the rest of the negs and see what else I have from there.
 
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