How do you scan your MF Film?

[drjoke]

I have Nikon Coolscan V ED for 35mm, and it's working very well.

I cannot afford Coolscan 9000 for MF. I have Epson V700 at home, and am wondering if it's good enough.

Scanners for MF becomes very expensive comparing to 35mm.

Will I likely have better quality with V700 on MF comparing to Coolscan V ED on 35mm?

What do you guys do?

 

[totifoto]

The v700 is fantastic for MF, I know alot of people that use it and love it.

 

[drjoke]

How does V750 compare? Will the difference show on MF film? Do you have example of great scans?

 

[iñaki]

You only need better holders.

 

[FrankS]

I love that picture, Keith!

I use a cheap flatbed style CanonScan 8400f. It has a light in the cover. It handles 1 strip of MF film or 2 stips of 135 at a time.

 

[Svitantti]

I use a Canon 8400F. It is ok but not great, but I dont want to spend more on a scanner because my goal is to print negs and project slides (or maybe print them on Ilfochrome).

 

[snip]

The 700 and the 750 are [Almost] identical apart from the 750 shipping with a fluid mount in some countries, here in the UK you have to ask for a fluid mount.

The fluid mount is very good, BUT rather fragile, my first one broke apart in two months and my new one is starting to crack a bit, I think maybe the scanner fluid is doing nasty things to the plastic.

It does work very well for MF and 5x4, it does 135 too but it does not hold a candle to the Nikons
Remember if you got a 9000 you could sell your V, still a big outlay though and it won't do 5x4 if you ever use that.

//Jan

Edited, I just double checked and the 750 has a different coating on the lenses, other than that they are identical.

 

[Svitantti]

The coating can be important too... Nikon Coolscan V has some flare problems because of a louse coating on the lenses.

 

[stephaneb]

The V750 also comes with IT8 targets and a profiling software. The targets alone almost make up for the price difference.

 

[AndrewNYC]

NIkon LS 8000

 

[titrisol]

I take a picture of the negatives by placinge them on top of a laptop monitor set to white and use a digital camera in macro mode.

 

[jan normandale]

I take a picture of the negatives by placinge them on top of a laptop monitor set to white and use a digital camera in macro mode.

Okay now I'm interested in this thread... lets see some of these please 😀

 

[titrisol]

My first attempts were not good enough, you can see the camera reflection in there

However now I got it better

All in my flickr stream

 

[Pherdinand]

you have a v700, why don't you just try it??

 

[oftheherd]

You only need better holders.

Thanks for the link. I need another 6x6 holder and had been wondering if I could get one. Apparently so.