Primefilm XA/Reflecta RPS 10 M

[Mpox]

I had to cut the lead to basically the width of a frame break. From there it establishes the first frame.

Thanks, Ill try that. Mine was much more consistent after I got it back from its first trip to Germany (the feed mechanism broke down after the first 150 scans) but its starting to sound and act like its going home again soon. Good thing I have another 5 months of free service warranty left. Should have bought the 10T me thinks..

 

[SaveKodak]

Thanks, Ill try that. Mine was much more consistent after I got it back from its first trip to Germany (the feed mechanism broke down after the first 150 scans) but its starting to sound and act like its going home again soon. Good thing I have another 5 months of free service warranty left. Should have bought the 10T me thinks..

Sometimes I worry about it breaking down but thus far, no issues. I was so impressed with it actually that I bought it's big brother, the PF120. I find them both a little quirky but the quality really is pretty much what I was getting out of a Coolscan 9000 I used to use.

Hopefully Kodak will renew interest in designing film scanners for home users. Can you believe that the Hasselblad X1 & 5 have been out for over 10 years and have never seen an update or price drop??? It's very frustrating to me that we have so few options available to us.

 

[Mpox]

But you wouldn't be scanning every frame if you selected what you wanted to at least preview on a light table. Alternatively, if you REALLY want to batch scan then why not do it on the lowest setting possible and then make your selects?

Im not scanning every frame, every time. I preview and selectively scan most of the time, but then there are times when Id rather just let the machine do its thing and focus on something else entirely.

 

[Mpox]

Hopefully Kodak will renew interest in designing film scanners for home users. Can you believe that the Hasselblad X1 & 5 have been out for over 10 years and have never seen an update or price drop??? It's very frustrating to me that we have so few options available to us.

I hear that! But TBH if I were Hassy I would have done exactly the same. There is no competition to force them to updates or lower pricing. If anything the units have been a good investment for buyers in terms of resale value.. :angel:

 

[brennanphotoguy]

I mean, they should have at least kept the ports updated. There really isn't an excuse for that.

 

[brennanphotoguy]

Also, swapped my PIXA out for a fresh unit and it's working flawlessly now.

 

[patsesson]

Might share my first impressions in this thread about this scanner.

I did buy it from Scandig's website from germany, i live in Finland.
I am really a beginner even in film photography but i enjoy it more than digital. Makes me take my time..

I did get also Vuescan professional and ColorPerfect plug-in for Photoshop CC 2017 (i am also a total newbie in photoshop, only used Lightroom for my editing)

I have been trying to follow this guide: http://benneh.net/tech****/vuescan-colorperfect-a-guide/?goal=yes And it seems kinda like a good workflow 🙂

The main irritating thing for me i think is VueScan and how it behaves.. So i only have like 5 total hours of use so far but still..
If i align the frame nicely using the hardware buttons found on the top of the scanner while looking in the small window on top of it, lets say frame no.3 on a strip.
Then hit preview in VueScan, it runs the film strip to the beginning to frame 1. and previews it! Annoying as heeeelll 😀 Also the interface looks sooo outdated..

And i also have many times had the issue when feeding the film strip into the scanner it align's it so that its 50% of one frame and 50% of the next frame.. Dont know if its the scanner fault or Vuescan, actually i think Vuescan's because this happens after i hit preview.. This mis-alignment.
And when i somehow get software buttons to pop-up into Vuescan to Forward or reverse the frame in the strip, nothing happens. It only executes it after i hit preview again.. So i have to think ahead about the frame i want to try to scan..
Pretty much just a headache trying to get the grips of it 😀

So i did download the Silverfast AI suite demo just for fun..
The interface of that did at first glance look well a bit more modern but all the options and switches.. almost a new headache creeping up again.

But after a few test scans it looked more promising, the frames did align nicely every time and when using hardware buttons to select the wanted frame in the middle of the srtip the software did preview just it, and not spooled back to the first frame in the strip.. YAY!
And the software buttons could also be used to forward/reverse the frames in real time!

So this seems really promising in my eyes, it just seems that there is only a "single pass" option as the default scanning in Silverfast, in Vuescan you could choose the number of passes to decrease the scanning noise in the picture?
Well even with the default the picture looks ok in my eyes in Silverfast.

So this far on my budget i have spent for me a lot of money for the scanner model, so that i would not have to upgrade in the future 🙂
Also i did buy the licenses for Vuescan Pro and Colorperfect, but the workflow using them seems a bit annoying for me...

So i might instead spend my hard earned cash on Silferfast also, and perhaps tro to color calibrate it also with some calibration strips. By this interesting post https://www.flickr.com/groups/977912@N23/discuss/72157628526293457/

Anyways i'm sure that with time i will get a good workflow for myself but this start has been a real stress..

Please share any thoughts if you have noticed something good/bad in your trials with this scanner 🙂

Also, any ideas what might cause this strange line running trough the whole scanned picture https://www.dropbox.com/s/7ol2o1uekzpiuo8/Screenshot 2017-05-06 17.24.10.png?dl=0
It is not visible in the paper prints from the lab of this roll of film. It seems to be in every frame in the same spot, in the scans i have now done..

Best: Patrik.