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Hello all,
I currently am not happy with my latest scanning solution. My local lab has a digital workflow that includes a Noritsu scanner that can scan at 4000 dpi and costs about $80,000. Clearly nothing I can afford or would ever buy. I cuurently shoot a lot of color negative and TMX/TMY 6×7 negatives as well as 35mm Portra negs and have him scan them. Obviously the guy who owns the scanner speaks highly of its incredible quality. He charges me very little – if I batch about 100 negatives together he will scan them as TIFF’s onto DVD for about $3 per scan. But I find that often the edges of the histogram are not where I want them. My latest project is to scan all of my own wedding negatives – negs I have printed wet and I know there is wonderful detail in the dress, but I get the entire dress in about 250-255 on the curve on his scans.
My question is that if I get the Nikon 9000 would I notice a significant decrease in quality. There’s got to be some reason why that scanner cost $80,000. But I feel I’d be more in control of the process since I’d be doing it. And for example I could try and try again to tweak a difficult scan and get more out of it myself, rather than having someone else do it – someone who would never really spend the time to get it right no matter what I paid since he is busy (and it’s not his stuff).
Obviously $3000 is nothing to shake a stick at, but since I’m pretty committed to go the digital darkroom route (starting with film still) I’m willing to sell my Jobo and enlarger etc. to help fund it.
Any advice.
-Josh
I currently am not happy with my latest scanning solution. My local lab has a digital workflow that includes a Noritsu scanner that can scan at 4000 dpi and costs about $80,000. Clearly nothing I can afford or would ever buy. I cuurently shoot a lot of color negative and TMX/TMY 6×7 negatives as well as 35mm Portra negs and have him scan them. Obviously the guy who owns the scanner speaks highly of its incredible quality. He charges me very little – if I batch about 100 negatives together he will scan them as TIFF’s onto DVD for about $3 per scan. But I find that often the edges of the histogram are not where I want them. My latest project is to scan all of my own wedding negatives – negs I have printed wet and I know there is wonderful detail in the dress, but I get the entire dress in about 250-255 on the curve on his scans.
My question is that if I get the Nikon 9000 would I notice a significant decrease in quality. There’s got to be some reason why that scanner cost $80,000. But I feel I’d be more in control of the process since I’d be doing it. And for example I could try and try again to tweak a difficult scan and get more out of it myself, rather than having someone else do it – someone who would never really spend the time to get it right no matter what I paid since he is busy (and it’s not his stuff).
Obviously $3000 is nothing to shake a stick at, but since I’m pretty committed to go the digital darkroom route (starting with film still) I’m willing to sell my Jobo and enlarger etc. to help fund it.
Any advice.
-Josh
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