Some GSN photos from China

Thanks, Barrett. Do you know of one that does a good job with both 35mm and 120mm?

Ted
 
tedwhite said:
Thanks, Barrett. Do you know of one that does a good job with both 35mm and 120mm?

Ted
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Ted: that could fill a book :)

On the no-longer-made front: Minolta's Multi Pro was a great scanner. A number of people likee Polaroid's SprintScan 120 (still available from Microtek under their own brand, with a few updates, I believe; they made both. There's also Nikon's 8000 and (current) 9000. Note that none of the above are cheap options; when it comes to dedicated film scanners, the addition of MF scanning spikes the price tag by almost double.

As a possible alternative, there is Epson's V700 series of upper-end flatbeds that supposedly do a decent job scanning 35mm and larger film formats as well (previous setups of this sort worked well for 120 and up, but were so-so at best for 35mm).

My film scanner of choice is a Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400, which is fantastic, but it 35mm only, which isn't a problem for me, since 35 is all I shoot. If I had a nice Rollei or Minoltacord fall into my hands, and I really wanted to use it, I'd keep my current scanner and run out and buy an Epson 4490, which does a really good job with 120. Depending on what you ended up buying (say, a used/NOS Minolta Dual IV, plus an Epson 4490), you could buy two scanners for less than the price of one dedicated, multi-format film scanner, and get great results.


- Barrett
 
I finally am getting around to posting the images in the gallery, couldn't be bothered until now to reduce the quality of the images to fit the galleries stupidly small sizes.
 
Barret:

When you wrote "Epson 4490" did you mean Epson 4990?

I have the latter. It has negative carriers for 35mm, 120mm, slides, 4X5, etc.
It can't do much of a job with 35mm, but does a nice one with 120mm, and I assume would do a top job with 4X5 negs, of which I have none.

My Plustek Optic Film 7200 negative scanner (35mm only) doesn't cut it, and I gave up on it. I don't want to condemn it completely as it is distinctly possible that I'm getting bad scan because I don't really know what I'm doing.

Ted
 
Avotius said:
I finally am getting around to posting the images in the gallery, couldn't be bothered until now to reduce the quality of the images to fit the galleries stupidly small sizes.
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Fantasic work. I must go to Sichuan very soon!
 
Its a treat to see images that are so beautiful from any camera. You have great eyes and good talent as well. I liked also to see these places I have never seen before. Many thanks for posting this thread
 
Re: my previous condemnation of the Plus Tek 35mm film scanner. I really did not know what I was doing. After a scanner whizbang friend gave me a tutorial, I find the Plus Tek does a proper job.
 

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I feel obliged to give this thread a bump to remind myself and others that it's not about the gear. These were some of the best photos I have ever seen on RFF!

Taken with a thirteen dollar GSN!
 
I recall that they knocked me out at the time. I think I went right out and bought a GSN.
They still knock me out. My GSN apparently succumbed to the pad of death (or is it the path of death?). The lens on those cameras is simply wonderful.
 
My GSN apparently succumbed to the pad of death (or is it the path of death?)
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Pad of Death is the correct term. This is because, if the pad is badly deteriorated, it effectively kills the camera due to the electrical contacts not aligning properly. Many different strange things can happen when the POD is bad... :eek:

Russ
 
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