Scanning with a digital camera

[Huss]

Noblex 135 Sport, Lomochrome Metropolis, Z7 scan, negativelabpro.com

 

[ColSebastianMoran]

How to work with fixed aperture scanner lens? DOF is razor thin at approx f/2.8. Mounted chromes have too much bulge, focus anywhere, corners are weak. Shoot a stack moving focus around to the key points in image. Merge the focus stack in PS. Gives the best resolution short of stitching.

Original is a 1982 chrome, shot with Nikon prime handheld. Florence Duomo.

 

[ranger9]

A lot of you seem to be getting less grain aliasing than I do. Not complaining, just think it's notable. From Sunday, using the new Ilford Ortho Plus film -- a lot less "ortho" than I had been expecting, but I liked the tonal range...

20-01-01_458 by JL Williams, on Flickr

 

[Huss]

Try Silberra 50 if you want full ortho.
Do you have in camera and maybe also post processing sharpening on? That may be giving you the grain aliasing. I only see a problem when I use Flickr due to their resizing etc algorithms, the actual results that I print are fine.

are you scanning in jpeg? that can introduce artifacts. use raw.

 

[Huss]

super sharp stuff huss!!

more from my last roll.

m6+35iv/50asph - venus 800 scanned with d800e+105 micro+NLP

INZ_4077 by Ricky Cheong Photography, on Flickr

ok, umm, did that car in the left back run over someone?

 

[ranger9]

Try Silberra 50 if you want full ortho.
Do you have in camera and maybe also post processing sharpening on? That may be giving you the grain aliasing. I only see a problem when I use Flickr due to their resizing etc algorithms, the actual results that I print are fine.

are you scanning in jpeg? that can introduce artifacts. use raw.

No, I don't, and no, I'm not. The Flickr issue may be in play, though... thanks...

 

[Huss]

No, I don't, and no, I'm not. The Flickr issue may be in play, though... thanks...

Flickr does some weird things. Sometimes I post pics and it makes them seem unsharp/pixellated etc

 

[Corran]

I like camera scanning for extremely quick turnaround.

I shot this on 4x5 last summer, developed it and stuck it still wet onto a lightpad I got from Amazon for under $25. "Scanned" wet with my D800E and a 55mm Micro:

I can "publish" film photos in under an hour if needed.

 

[Huss]

M3, 7A 50 1.1, Silberra Orto 50, Z7 scan

 

[MJ Buckpitt]

D750, Nikkor 105mm micro, Kodak Double X

D750, Nikkor 105mm micro, Kodak Double X


Starbucks, Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA by Mel Buckpitt, on Flickr

Light leaks courtesy of Leica

 

[madNbad]

My wife took this sometime in the late 1970s' with a K1000 and Tri-X. Sony A5100, 55 Micro-Nikkor, RAW Power:

[/url]DSC08404 by Michael DeLuca, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

[valdas]

I did not read all 16 pages of posts so maybe I missed that part, but my question - what do you do with "dust and scratch" removal? The only option in post processing or...? Surely you can clean (or try to) dust before DSLR scanning, but not scratches. Surely, scanners also could not handle traditional BW dust/scratches, but for color film this is a lovely feature saving lots of time of post processing. I am trying to decide if it's worth moving from scanners I now use to digital camera, so it would be good to understand what are the "pain points" with camera vs scanner.

 

[ColSebastianMoran]

NLP on 4x5 BW negative. In 1965, I did a course "Creative Photography" with Minor White, who had just arrived on campus. One of the most educational experiences of my life, although that's not particularly evident in this image. Of course, he sent us out into the world with 4x5 and the Zone System.

For this cam-scan, I tried a superb enlarging lens, 80/4 APO Rodagon-N. That lens is OK but not fab for camera-scanning 35mm at 1x, but I think it's near the sweet spot at about 1:6 for this cam-scan of 4x5 to an APS body.

Processed in NLP 2.12, Frontier 3, Standard. NLP delivers a too-warm image. I simply adjusted the Temp slider after conversion to get the slightly warm look I prefer. (NLP does have a B&W option; that gives a perfectly neutral result as expected.)

 

[Ricoh]

I'm contemplating NLP and returning to the BEOON since the Plustek is so so slow and life is so so short!

Reading the installation for Windows (I'm running W8) the installation seems quite convoluted compared to Mac. Any experience in this matter?

PS that's a really appealing shot, colonel.

 

[keytarjunkie]

Nikon F + Micro Nikkor 55/3.5; scanned with A7RII + Micro Nikkor 55/3.5 at 1:2; inverted and processed in Capture One 20

Nikon S3 Limited + Nikkor 50/1.4; scanned with A7RII + Micro Nikkor 55/3.5 at 1:2; inverted and processed in Capture One 20 with some additional tweaking in photoshop. Color is really hard manually.

 

[Shac]

I find Kodachromes a tad tricky to scan, partly b/c of color and also b/c of contrast. The Nikon slide scanner I used to use had a Kodachrome setting.
These Kodachrome II images were shot with Nikon F and 105 nikkor, then scanned with a Sony A7R2 and an Olympus OM 80mm f4 auto macro on bellows. I find this lens has a very flat field and corners are sharp

 

[ColSebastianMoran]

... scanned with a Sony A7R2 and an Olympus OM 80mm f4 auto macro on bellows. I find this lens has a very flat field and corners are sharp

The 80 Oly f/4 Bellows Macro is terrific at 1x. Nice shots and scans!

 

[Huss]

I find Kodachromes a tad tricky to scan, partly b/c of color and also b/c of contrast. The Nikon slide scanner I used to use had a Kodachrome setting.
These Kodachrome II images were shot with Nikon F and 105 nikkor, then scanned with a Sony A7R2 and an Olympus OM 80mm f4 auto macro on bellows. I find this lens has a very flat field and corners are sharp

Those look great.

 

[Huss]

Sears mini35 (Ricoh FF-1S), Fuji C200, Z7 scan, negativelabpro

 

[Huss]

Sears mini35 (Ricoh FF1s), Fuji C200



Here is a 1:1 crop from the right side: