How do you scan your 35mm B&W film?

How do you scan your 35mm B&W film?

  • I use a flatbed scanner - i.e. Epson V750 photo scanner

    Votes: 313 35.6%

  • I use a dedicated 35mm scanner - i.e. a Nikon Coolscan V

    Votes: 360 41.0%

  • I use a dedicated multi-format film scanner - i.e. a Nikon Coolscan 9000

    Votes: 86 9.8%

  • I use a professional scanner - i.e. drum scanner

    Votes: 27 3.1%

  • I send mine away to be scanned

    Votes: 62 7.1%

  • I don't care - I wet print!

    Votes: 31 3.5%
  • Total voters
    879
"I use a dedicated 35mm scanner - i.e. a Nikon Coolscan V" :eek:
I use a dedicated 35mm scanner - i.e. Plustek 7200i......
 
The Coolscan V gas been fantastic for 135's but it's so slow.
I just added a Pakon for fast pre-viewing of full rolls.
I have very high hopes if improved workflow of both for scanning and set printing this winter.
 
I don't know which scanner is the right choice. Too much confusion. print the film still seems to me the easiest thing. Therefore vote wet printI
 
shortstop said:
I don't know which scanner is the right choice. Too much confusion. print the film still seems to me the easiest thing. Therefore vote wet printI
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Scanning is important if one wishes to share electronically and have a dialog about actual images in a virtual conversation.
If one inly shares and converses in person printing is indeed best.
I actually sort of wish that's were we all still were (printing). It just is not so.
Almost any film scanner is better than none.
A dedicated 35mm scanner sold for under $150 in our classified yesterday. It's not hard to join in. :)
 
f16sunshine said:
Scanning is important if one wishes to share electronically and have a dialog about actual images in a virtual conversation. If one inly shares and converses in person printing is indeed best. I actually sort of wish that's were we all still were (printing). It just is not so. Almost any film scanner is better than none. A dedicated 35mm scanner sold for under $150 in our classified yesterday. It's not hard to join in. :)
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I think you are right.
Participate with some of my photos would be nice. I use 135, 120 and 4x5. Epson V750 should be the right choice, but what about its performance with 135? And it costs 700€...
 
I use a V700 also. I would say go for that one considering your other film formats.
It's fine for preview of 35's and works really quite well with 120 and 4x5.... really the best all around scanner for the money imo.

For 135's it does come a bit close to the edges. You will not see grain level sharpness in your images but it's not bad either.
It's the "grain" the v700 makes. It looks very bubble and smooth in with 35mm giving an slightly unsharp appearance.

Sorry to hear about EU prices even though it's still worth it imo. In the US I paid $450 for mine on a clearance new including post.
Purchased during the economic circling of the drain in 2008.
It's still going strong after many cross country moves. They cost more now I understand.

here is V700 with HP5 at 1600
HP5 @1600 tmaxdev @ 9.5m028 by Adnan W, on Flickr

And here you see the bubbly grain in the oof area especially.
HP5 @1600 tmaxdev @ 9.5m007 by Adnan W, on Flickr

Compare CS50 with real Grain... It's only a subtle difference at this screen size.
.Less so by Adnan W, on Flickr
 
thanks for the advice and for examples. I just saw on amazon.it: V750: € 782 !!! I would like to buy a Summilux 35 preasph before. I believe that the scanner can wait.
 
f16sunshine said:
I use a V700 also. I would say go for that one considering your other film formats. It's fine for preview of 35's and works really quite well with 120 and 4x5.... really the best all around scanner for the money imo. For 135's it does come a bit close to the edges. You will not see grain level sharpness in your images but it's not bad either. It's the "grain" the v700 makes. It looks very bubble and smooth in with 35mm giving an slightly unsharp appearance. Sorry to hear about EU prices even though it's still worth it imo. In the US I paid $450 for mine on a clearance new including post. Purchased during the economic circling of the drain in 2008. It's still going strong after many cross country moves. They cost more now I understand. here is V700 with HP5 at 1600 HP5 @1600 tmaxdev @ 9.5m028 by Adnan W, on Flickr And here you see the bubbly grain in the oof area especially. HP5 @1600 tmaxdev @ 9.5m007 by Adnan W, on Flickr Compare CS50 with real Grain... It's only a subtle difference at this screen size. .Less so by Adnan W, on Flickr
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thanks for the advice and for examples. I just saw on amazon.it: V750: € 782 !!! I would like to buy a Summilux 35 preasph before. I believe that the scanner can wait.
 
Minolta 5400 shows more detail than any of the 3 Leica enlargers I have. Spotting emulsion imperfections I never saw in an 11x14 is a 45 minute job.
 
Coolscan iV + Vuescan here. Filed down SA-21 lets me capture the entire frame with original borders. To get the exposure right i set the puffer to about 10% in Vuescan. No other settings, scan is done as 24bit colour tiff. Post processing in LR and/or PS. I'm very happy with it and im going to use it until it breaks :D

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My set-up is very similar to Mr. McKinnon's, the camera is a D3100 with its' kit zoom on an extension tube, the enlarger a durst 6X6.

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I wish there was an option for DSLR scanning in the poll.
 
jalLee2001 said:
Both a Epson 700 and Nikon 5000. Detail is better not the 5000 but the noise is horrible!!!
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What do you mean by "noise"? I have the 9000 and a V ED and both do b&w really well. I take it you don't have any IR cleaning activated while scanning traditional (non-C41) b&w films?
 
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After owning 3 V500 and 1 V700 Epson, and using Vuescan, that other one, and finding Epson Scan to be the best and not that great. and after getting usable resuts with 35mm and "not so good" with 120 film, I gave up.

Not exactly computer illiterate (Computer consulting and teaching has been my biz for 25 years, and photography a hobby for 50) I think it's just one of those things , like tuning new electronic ignitions and fuel injection (Did I mention I am a car buff and restored european and classics for 40 years) better left to people with the right tools and a different mind set than I now have.

I pay professionals to do my scanning. I still shoot film and get some very nice images. I simply cannot get them across that "great divide" into the digital world.

It was a PITA from the first scanner, and I actually sleep at night while others do my scanning, properly and professionally.

I shoot, while they scan.
 
Another KM5400 user here, it outshines the 30 Mp scans the lab used to do for me with their Noritsu scanner. Its amazing what it can pull out of a tiny piece of film but its still quite a lot of work to get to the end result on the computer. Single pixel wide noise lines in the scans sometimes can be really frustrating but I have very rarely seen them in B&W, they mostly appear in deep shadows scanning Velvia.
 
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