[pure-silver] Re: Presenting silver images on the web
You're welcome to see the results on my flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/99071700@N00/
The Epson 4990 is a great scanner - fast and accurate. The V700 and 750 even better, and still half the price of the Nikon dedicated film scanners. But if you can still find a 4490 (less than $150), you can more than get by for posting on the web. What I don't like about the flat bed scanners is the film holders. My solution has been to tape my negatives face down on the flat bed (to avoid newton rings), and then flip them around in Photoshop. So far so good. That being said, if I had $2000, I'd buy a Nikon 9000.
You can buy a better film holder on the web, that has a glass carrier and makes the negatives stay flatter. I have one but I've lost the information about where I got it or the website. Maybe somebody else knows?
The one problem I've had with the 4990 is that the glass got cloudy inside, and I had to take it to get it cleaned. 

--shannon




Good luck,

Elias

On Dec 25, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Jeffrey Thorns wrote:
A question for those of you that have a web-presense for your silver images;
Do you scan the original negatives (with a film scanner) or do you make prints first, then scan on a flatbed scanner?
My early attempts (prints with a flatbed) some years back were less than stellar, my scanner has since broken, so I am faced with buying new. I have seen several websites that did a beautiful job of presenting silver images, and I have always assumed that people made the prints first, then scanned those. 

Do most of you scan the prints, rather than the negs?
Anyone using the Epson V700? Do you like it? (sorry to be sliding OT...)
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