Dektol Dan
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I've got quite a scanner collection. Back in the early 90's when I
discovered I could shoot color film when I was pretty much limited to black and white in the dark room, the film scanner seemed like a great boon to me.
In 1999, I bought a Konica Minolta DiMage II (this preceded the famous Pro) and I was really quire happy with it.
Years pass with SCSI passing as well, and I bought a firewire Nikon 9000ed the year before its demise. I was aware that its cheesey, crappy, designed by an idiot, 35mmm film holder was only good for 50 closings and openings (about 25 rolls of film when cut into strips of four shots, plus the many loading errors).
At the time of my purchase the $10 holder was $52, I balked and put my money towards a Newton glass mid size format holder. The supplied mid sized holder was a bigger more useless piece of feces than the 35mm holder.
Now, the 35mm holder goes for $4-500 (!), and the glass mid for $600!
I figured I'd better put the Nikon in reserve, so this week I dug out my old Mac G4 and resurrected the DiMageII. The Minolta
is only good for 2800 DPI (about the same as a 12 meg pixel digital camera). The great thing about it is that has single light source instead of the 3 LED set up the Nikon uses.
This has been compared the difference in look between a condenser and diffuser enlarger, and that seems fair to me.
I was surprised to see the old look again. I remember that when I bought the Nikon I had a hard time adjusting to its imagery after using the Minolta.
Anyway, is there anyone out there that has a favorite way of modifying the Nikon holders to get more mileage? Don't get me wrong, I really like the old Minolta but not the loss of desk space.
The other issue is that it makes better pictures from multiple passes. This is really time consuming!
Here are two scans, one from one scan the other from three.
See if you can tell the difference in these jpegs. I think I can, and
multiple pass scan seems to have a 3D quality that I never could get from the Nikon. One pass is on top despite it's having apparently more contrast:
discovered I could shoot color film when I was pretty much limited to black and white in the dark room, the film scanner seemed like a great boon to me.
In 1999, I bought a Konica Minolta DiMage II (this preceded the famous Pro) and I was really quire happy with it.
Years pass with SCSI passing as well, and I bought a firewire Nikon 9000ed the year before its demise. I was aware that its cheesey, crappy, designed by an idiot, 35mmm film holder was only good for 50 closings and openings (about 25 rolls of film when cut into strips of four shots, plus the many loading errors).
At the time of my purchase the $10 holder was $52, I balked and put my money towards a Newton glass mid size format holder. The supplied mid sized holder was a bigger more useless piece of feces than the 35mm holder.
Now, the 35mm holder goes for $4-500 (!), and the glass mid for $600!
I figured I'd better put the Nikon in reserve, so this week I dug out my old Mac G4 and resurrected the DiMageII. The Minolta
is only good for 2800 DPI (about the same as a 12 meg pixel digital camera). The great thing about it is that has single light source instead of the 3 LED set up the Nikon uses.
This has been compared the difference in look between a condenser and diffuser enlarger, and that seems fair to me.
I was surprised to see the old look again. I remember that when I bought the Nikon I had a hard time adjusting to its imagery after using the Minolta.
Anyway, is there anyone out there that has a favorite way of modifying the Nikon holders to get more mileage? Don't get me wrong, I really like the old Minolta but not the loss of desk space.
The other issue is that it makes better pictures from multiple passes. This is really time consuming!
Here are two scans, one from one scan the other from three.
See if you can tell the difference in these jpegs. I think I can, and
multiple pass scan seems to have a 3D quality that I never could get from the Nikon. One pass is on top despite it's having apparently more contrast:
Ranchu
Veteran
Multiple passes are worth it, it looks so much better!
philipus
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I see nobody replied to your question about the holders. Did you try this company? I haven't used them myself.
I've scanned several hundreds of 35mm rolls with my 9000 without (touch wood) the holder breaking.
I've scanned several hundreds of 35mm rolls with my 9000 without (touch wood) the holder breaking.