Printing Size after Scan ?

[PHOTO24]

Hi all,

whats the biggest reasonable printsize that you did with a scanned VELVIA,PROVIA,APX100 negative/slide ?

I use a EPSON3200 to san, but the max print size on my EPSON 4800 is max 35cm in with due to resolution quality of the scan. Maybe with an Imacon scan can go bigger ?

Any experience ?

cheers
Sven

 

[parasko]

X10 enlargement would be the largest I would print for acceptable image quality.

 

[ffttklackdedeng]

Sorry to disappoint you, but the 3200 being a flatbed scanner, you won't get more than say real 2000 dpi scan resolution, maybe even 'only' 1500.. That would translate - depending on your sensitivity - to maximum enlargements between 5x and 8x the size of the negative.

Imacon or film scanner will allow more, again this depends on your perception, but 10x or a bit more should be possible

Regards, Robert

 

[OscarGarrido]

I have copys in 150 (59ft)cm x 55cm of my pictures,and have very good quality.
Scanned in a EPSON Expression 1600

 

[RdEoSg]

I've printed images to about the same as Oscar with good results. Used an Epson 4800 scanner I believe it was using Velvia 100F.

 

[Ben1]

The imacon is well worth the trouble....although ridiculously expensive to buy and not cheap as a service to have ur trannys scanned.
I guess it depends how big you want to go... and how good you want the quality to be...
if your planning on selling, id definately go the imacon way.

From imacon scans, ive had 30"x10" prints done from velvia trannies shot with xpan scanned to around 70MB..(3150x3150) and they are faultless....

 

[Filmboy]

If you're in London I'd recommend becoming a member of Photofusion - you can then book and use their Imacon virtual drum scanner which, according to its blurb, scans to grain size without interpolation, and provides scans that you can print at 300 dpi to about 150 cm long - which is plenty big, I'm thinking... (Photofusion also have reasonably priced printing services, although I haven't used them yet).

 

[sf]

Biggest reasonable print size from a scanned slide:

on the KM Multi Pro : as big as you want. Capable of crystal clear prints at 13x19 when scanned at 3200dpi and dumped into a file at full resolution for 100% print size.

On the Epson 3170 : 8x10 is very good with B&W, but the scanner struggles with E6.

Epson V700 : does perfectly well at 13x19. Equally sharp as the KM Multi Pro (on paper print), but lacks the punch.

 

[kaiyen]

I've done 3'x4' (yes, feet) with an Epson 3200 scanned 8 bit at 3200 from a 120 e6 no problem. It looks amazing.

Print sizes beyond 11x14 get into issues with viewing distance and whatnot.

allan

 

[Parkes Owen]

The imacon is well worth the trouble....although ridiculously expensive to buy and not cheap as a service to have ur trannys scanned.
I guess it depends how big you want to go... and how good you want the quality to be...
if your planning on selling, id definately go the imacon way.

From imacon scans, ive had 30"x10" prints done from velvia trannies shot with xpan scanned to around 70MB..(3150x3150) and they are faultless....

I`ve done the same, if you want big prints, go the drum scanner. A 70mb file on a cd costs me around AUD$30(if the lab prints it the scan is free) and is money well spent,especially since your camera gear and film is capable of such excellent results!

 

[Ben1]

Hi parkes,

Just to let you know, if you want excellent quality scans from the imacon at a VERY good price, try www.imagescience.com.au

Im in the west but send my trannys over there (north melb) for scanning because theyre prices are amazing. I get roughly 250MB scans from the imacon (thats after the rebate crop) for $15 each, burnt to DVD. There 70mb file is $5 or so.... well worth the shipping if you got heaps you want to scan without immediately printing.

Cheers

 

[Parkes Owen]

Thanks for the tip Ben, I will give them a try as soon as I have a few decent tranny`s worth scanning, cheers.