Post your drum scans (aka the first official Drum Scanners thread)

I forgot about this thread but rediscovered it tonight as I was searching for some information. It's a fascinating thread and I really need to start from the beginning. I have more problems than just learning to make a decent scan, I develop my own negatives so need to work through issues there first. I'll be back :)
 
nbagno said:
I forgot about this thread but rediscovered it tonight as I was searching for some information. It's a fascinating thread and I really need to start from the beginning. I have more problems than just learning to make a decent scan, I develop my own negatives so need to work through issues there first. I'll be back :)
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Thanks! Sure there's few things in this thread already, although drum scanning is not so mainstream as CCD scanning - I'm glad the thread has grown a bit now :)

Margus
 
Margus, those are wonderful images, i really enjoy browsing through this thread backward and forward, impressed by the power and quality of your pictures.
Keep it up!

cheers
seb
 
seblock said:
Margus, those are wonderful images, i really enjoy browsing through this thread backward and forward, impressed by the power and quality of your pictures.
Keep it up!
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Thanks a lot for a positive feedback Seb,

In fact I really thought we should close the thread since not many people use drum scanning or its services for their analog work. It's starting to look like it's some 1 (or max 2-) man show, meaning a poor show :)

But there seem to be some little intrest so I'll try to post a couple of scans time-to-time.


 
WOW. astonishing level of detail in that slide...

But if LOVE the color palette of the Fuji 160C. I so cry at the demise of film.....
 
I do not drum scan, but I really enjoy this thread. It's a pleasure to see such high quality work. Please, go on!
robert
 
I don't drum scan either only having an Imacon 848, but I'm really enjoying seeing the results of other top quality scanning equipment.

Keep posting and please don't judge the interest by counting the number of drum scans appearing. :)
 
Cheers guys!

jzagaja said:
Margus - did you send your scanner to ABC for readjusting? I have second unit with serial 423 and now red channel is ok but rest are truncated (in first unit all was truncated), see:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByP8kkW_h00uMHRmTTdiNGltQmM/edit?usp=sharing

There must be something in electronics.
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Haven't sent mine anywhere, made all the adjustments myself.

Your's seems definitely a bit too excessive.

Although it seems many if not the most of SM11K have slightly shifted red shadow (could be the specifics of fiber optics/light bulb combo or just too sensitive red PMT circuitry?) - all scanners, including the top end drum scanners have their hadrware or software quirks IMO, including the top end models. Even after IT8-calibration (so this could be also a QC color-handling from the software side) mine's also very slightly shadow red-shifted on positives, but good thing it's not clipping in any direction of the color channel distribution thus this is very easily correctible with the color curves in PP since the scanner has very good channel separation with its high end 14bit A/Ds. Although I've been tempted to to re-bias my red channel just a tiny-winy bit to see if it helps or not, but then again I'm not sure if it's a software-induced little shift. I guess I must try w/o IT8 or Color Trio for comparison to be sure before I go into hardware adjustments.

In comparison the lower-end ScanMate 3000 I use has the red channel slightly clipped on the other direction, this may need some more serious channel rebiasing.

Margus
 
Margus - re-bias red channel by yourself (how) or by ABC? Do you get histogram like this from slides in all channels (no shadow clipping)?
 

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Margus - re-bias red channel by yourself (how) or by ABC? Do you get histogram like this from slides in all channels (no shadow clipping)?
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Haven't touched my channels bias yet, but checking the manual you can rebias them with the terminal monitor program (Adjust PMT gain option) and measuring with voltmeter (with TP connections marked) and the screw on each PMT module per channel.

I guess with the right knowledge there can be deeper component replacements as well with other fine adjustments that you can't directly do yourself, but those I'd better leave to ABC if it ever went terribly wrong on my scanner.
 
The thing is ABC is not much interested :( They don't pick up the phone and answer to emails. BTW - isn't it bias?
 

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As someone else said, wow. Wonderful scans. You may have started a new GAS epidemic here on RFF.
 
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