Scanner for making contact prints??

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I need to make darkroomless contact prints from a negative carrier page of a roll of film.

My budget? under/around $300 if possible.
 
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Huh. Short answer: I have no idea, but I've been thinking about doing the same myself. "negative carrier page"? You mean a printed contact sheet or just a plastic contact sheet full of 35mm negs? Excellent pro scans can be had for $20 a roll (lots of res in a non lossy format). You can get an adequate 35mm scanner for $150. You are going to spend more on the wet stuff, a contact frame and printable transparencies (crazy expensive, I have no idea why).
 
I don't think you'll find anything new that can scan a whole page of film for under $500. The least expensive that I can think of is the EPSON v700. A great scanner capable of handling film up to 8x10", but its a $500 scanner. The less expensive models won't scan that lare an area. You might find a used or reconditioned one, or its predecessor the 4990, for something closer to your budget.
 
Proteus617 said:
Huh. Short answer: I have no idea, but I've been thinking about doing the same myself. "negative carrier page"? You mean a printed contact sheet or just a plastic contact sheet full of 35mm negs? Excellent pro scans can be had for $20 a roll (lots of res in a non lossy format). You can get an adequate 35mm scanner for $150. You are going to spend more on the wet stuff, a contact frame and printable transparencies (crazy expensive, I have no idea why).
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Highlighted = YES to your Q.
I am thinking any flatbed that can do Neg/Slide scans, would work. I have a 35mm scanner for regular scans to TIFF. I thought I just could put a page of negatives and scan them as film, and save it a PDF to print it as a contact sheet. To sleeve with the Negative storage sheet.
 
Dwig said:
I don't think you'll find anything new that can scan a whole page of film for under $500. The least expensive that I can think of is the EPSON v700. A great scanner capable of handling film up to 8x10", but its a $500 scanner. The less expensive models won't scan that lare an area. You might find a used or reconditioned one, or its predecessor the 4990, for something closer to your budget.
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What about the V500?
 
I assume you are talking about dropping the loaded plastic sheet on the scanner bed and if so isn't the plastic sheet going to kill the sharpness and probably create some weird prism or color effects ??

The only ones I can think of are a Epson V700 or V750 or some other out of production scanner that would do 8x10 film, but I dont think the results would be very good if still in the plastic.

A V500/600 only does strips.
 
tammons said:
I assume you are talking about dropping the loaded plastic sheet on the scanner bed and if so isn't the plastic sheet going to kill the sharpness and probably create some weird prism or color effects ??

The only ones I can think of are a Epson V700 or V750 or some other out of production scanner that would do 8x10 film, but I dont think the results would be very good if still in the plastic.

A V500/600 only does strips.
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That is an understatement. The results are horrible! A complete waste of time. What I do with the V500 is scan two strips at a time in the negative holder. This gives me two five frame strips and one four or five frame strip for a 24 exposure roll. I then size them and cut and paste on to an 8.5x11 page in Photoshop. Takes me about ten minutes to do this and the results are very good.

Below is an example of a contact before I added numbering and comments.


contact_web.jpg


Cheers...

Rem
 
Yeah that looks good like that. I just assumed he just wanted to drop the entire sheet on the scanner and go.

You could do the same with a V700/750 and get a 24 frame contact sheet or 12 slides.
 
remegius said:
That is an understatement. The results are horrible! A complete waste of time. What I do with the V500 is scan two strips at a time in the negative holder. This gives me two five frame strips and one four or five frame strip for a 24 exposure roll. I then size them and cut and paste on to an 8.5x11 page in Photoshop. Takes me about ten minutes to do this and the results are very good.

Below is an example of a contact before I added numbering and comments.


contact_web.jpg


Cheers...

Rem
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This sounds reasonable.
The V500 has 2 strip holder I'd guess.
Pasting the copied strips is easy enough.
Thanks.
 
tammons said:
I assume you are talking about dropping the loaded plastic sheet on the scanner bed and if so isn't the plastic sheet going to kill the sharpness and probably create some weird prism or color effects ??

The only ones I can think of are a Epson V700 or V750 or some other out of production scanner that would do 8x10 film, but I dont think the results would be very good if still in the plastic.

A V500/600 only does strips.
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The Epson 4990 can scan 8x10 negatives. so this one should work. (I guess out of the storage page :eek:)
 
If the 4990 will actually scan 8x10 film, I would go that route.

I have a v500 and its awful.
Just down right fuzzy.

A lot worse than my 4870 was, but maybe I got a bad one.
 
Got It Figured Out !!!!!!!

Got It Figured Out !!!!!!!

Figured it out...
You will be surprised too

I have a Epson NX515 multi-task printer/scanner. It takes various Memory cards and will print a "Contact Sheet with file names.
So, now I copy my scanned negs from the roll to a SD card and insert in the printer and make a contact sheet.... Tada :D !!
 
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