Re: negative scanners (OT)

[jneuhauser@wavecable.com]

Thank you everyone for all the information.  After a lot 
of internet research and your emails today, I think I will 
go for a high end negative scanner for my 35mm negs and 
then take the medium format negs, of which I don't have 
that many, somewhere else to scan.  I am comfortable with 
the Nikon film scanners and it looks like for 600-900 
dollars I can get a good one.  Basically I have 20 years 
of 35mm black and white and color negs to scan and this 
summer I need to concentrate on getting two projects done. 
It looks like the Nikon 4000 or 5000 is going to be best 
for me.  Anyone have any major caveats about those?

Janet Neuhauser
> > One feature I wish softwares like Vuescan had is to scan 
> > the
> > image at 6400dpi into the buffer, apply very light 
> > sharpening,
> > and then resample the image at 4800 dpi or 3200 dpi 
> > before
> > saving in TIFF. A 3200 dpi equivalent file I make from 
> > 6400dpi
> > scans in Photoshop is superior to 3200 dpi scan, as you 
> > can
> > easily expect. Why not automate this and save disk space 
> > a
> > bit?
>
>
> I do something similar using the Epson twain driver into 
> photoshop. I have a
> photoshop action which opens Epson Scan, I do all of the 
> driver settings,
> click scan, and when it hits photoshop it gets a slight 
> auto sharpen and
> then downsampling. Though this obviously isn't 
> applicable for vuescan.
>
> -Jeremy Moore-
> http://www.jeremydmoore.com/