im looking in to buying a film scanner for 35mm (acctually a scanner that allows a variety of sizes would be great, but im a poor college student and must save as many funds as possible). does anyone have any suggestions as to what is good?
if people are going to give me crap about using film…dont answer the question, thanks.
those that know know film is where its at, but of course the ignorant think digital a and photoshop rule – for laziness and convenience yes, quality colour saturation etc yes its the film
so to answer you, use a dedicated film scanner if you can not a flabed (digital photoshopers will say use a flatbed – they will also say other stupid things)
so dedicated film scanner! nikon make great ones (also charge extra 50% cause nikon is on the frount!) there are a few no name brands that are reasonable – go fo one of those to start with
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Personally I would recommend trying to find a relatively inexpensive dedicated film scanner, because with my flatbed, especially when scanning black and white negatives, the image quality is very poor, and it doesn’t detect a lot of tones, leaving your images looking kind of flat.
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if you’re a poor college student just buy a nice scanner that is capable of scanning film. most of the epson ‘photo’ scanners can do it. so can some of the nicer canons.
dedicated film scanners are expensive and really only useful if you shoot A LOT of film. if you’re in college in a photo program they should be transitioning you to digital anyway. i’d hold off on the digital scanner til you truly need it and go with a cheaper photo scanner to brdige the gap.
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