sf
Veteran
all will be clear on the website
thanks for the note
thanks for the note
sf
Veteran
OK, my website now has the scanner test on it.
Of course, we are still waiting for some of the scans to come in, but this is a good start. Actually, this is nearly it!
http://www.shutterflower.com/scanner comparison.htm
Of course, we are still waiting for some of the scans to come in, but this is a good start. Actually, this is nearly it!
http://www.shutterflower.com/scanner comparison.htm
Terence T
Where'd my Bessa go?
sf
Veteran
well, I'll wait till you get that E6 before putting your pics on the site.
Those scans look very different from the others on the comparison so far. It IS the first Imacon, so I suppose that is fitting.
Those scans look very different from the others on the comparison so far. It IS the first Imacon, so I suppose that is fitting.
Terence T
Where'd my Bessa go?
Terence T
Where'd my Bessa go?
Terence T
Where'd my Bessa go?
Terence T
Where'd my Bessa go?
shutterflower said:
Managed to locate a backup of the 35mm Velvia scan. Just uploaded the missing 35mm crop. It's on the original post.
Different? How so?
Now... back to some real work. It was quite fun giving the new scanner a workout.
fgianni
Trainee Amateur
Are we sure all the sampleas are without any kind of correction, even by the scan software?
Most of them seem quite well colour corrected to me.
Most of them seem quite well colour corrected to me.
Terence T
Where'd my Bessa go?
I did color correct mine, manually though. The rest of the corrections were limited to tweaking the levels a tad to brighten the scene a little. No sharpening was applied.
As I thought the purpose of this comparison was to see how well different scanners reproduce details, I didn't think a bit of color correction would hurt.
As I thought the purpose of this comparison was to see how well different scanners reproduce details, I didn't think a bit of color correction would hurt.
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kully
Happy Snapper
For the Nikon V ED, I only colour corrected the C41 scan - the rest are as they were. No extra options (such as sharpening, grain reduction, DICE &c.) were applied.
Andrew Touchon
Well-known
fgianni said:
I did no corrections on mine.
tammons
Established
No color corrections. mostly auto or default settings with Silverfast or the Minolta software.
sf
Veteran
fgianni said:
I am sure most posters corrected the colors in their scans - the C41 looks corrected pretty much invariably.
That is fine. What people want to get from this test isn't necessarily the default, blind scan from the machine, but rather what THEY would get from it if doing a quick scan on a frame. So, color correcting is something that any user can do automatically. It's not an intense image correction process, so I think it is OK to apply it.
This isn't an engineering style test. This is a user test. Just a test to show how the scanners will compare in the hands of real humans. Some people left their scans 100% intouched. I did. That's fine, we all know what we're looking at.
Also, the images are not all 100% sharp, so you kind of have to consider all the images from one scanner against those of another, not just 1 on 1, or you might perceive the Epson as being sharper than the Howtek. Or not.. . but you get the point.
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aad
Not so new now.
I dunno-I did nothing to the DS IV scans.
sf
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well, that's even better. Untouched is best. Corrected is fine. Sharpened and/or curved is BAD.
Looks like we have a good pile here, though.
I am just about to put the Imacon scans on the website. They will be right at the bottom, below the Howtek.
Looks like we have a good pile here, though.
I am just about to put the Imacon scans on the website. They will be right at the bottom, below the Howtek.
aad
Not so new now.
And I may never eat crispy crunchy chocolate chip cookies ever again.
sf
Veteran
funny. As I read the first few words of your post about the cookies. . . I felt a tinge of nausea. No idea why. Maybe because I just ate an entire pint of Ben & Jerry's Dublin Mudslide.
The site now has the Imacon on there. Bottom of the list.
The site now has the Imacon on there. Bottom of the list.
Terence T
Where'd my Bessa go?
Thanks George. The Fuji 5000 stacks up pretty well against the Imacon overall, imo.
If anyone wants my negs to test their own scanner, drop me an email. $6 via paypal to cover the costs of the negs, shipping and packaging should do it.
If anyone wants my negs to test their own scanner, drop me an email. $6 via paypal to cover the costs of the negs, shipping and packaging should do it.
sf
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Terence T said:
I know about that Fuji Finescan! Really impressive scanner. OF course, it probably demands a similar price to the dedicated MF film scanners. I don't know, though.
Thanks everyone for taking part. I pretty much broke even on my costs of film, developing and shipping and gas. This is a pretty decent scanner comparison. I wouldn't call it a test. More of a comparison since we aren't really testing the capabilities of the scanners.
ANd if anyone cares, the B&W was developed in D76 (standard developer at the IVey Imaging in Seattle, WA). They did all the development. I wasn't about to risk it myself.