I have two Epson scanners and two dedicated film scanners made by Minolta and Nikon, thank you. If you want a scan which will be a good basework for fine-art inkjet printing, get a good dedicated film scanner and scan according to the rules (RAW, DNG or TIFF, 16bits per channel, actual max. resolution of the scanner, etc). Again, hundreds of forums threads, webpages, video tutorials and books, and for some reason. For web display of 800x600 images which would be the size of the post stamp once printed and will mostly be looked at online with uncalibrated laptops screens, iPads or cellphones, it is not necessary to be too picky with scanning (well levelled enough and clean scans with no dust spots are what you want to display).
Rather than being the usual grumpy moaning about digital versus film, I prefer to think that it's very nice to know that we either still can make analog prints on FB gelatin paper in the wet darkroom if we want to, of have fine-art inkjet prints done from scanned negatives if we chose to.
000480730005 by Maryland Photos, on Flickr
