[rollei_list] Re: OT Re: Scanning 120 film

Hi Douglas,

> From: Douglas Nygren <dnygr@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:33:32 -0500
>
> Hi Neil,
> Thank you for the reply. The reason I asked the question was that
> Ibecome interested in scanning midway through your thread.
>
> A friend has started to scan my negatives on his Imacon. He is
> teaching me how to edit them in Photoshop. I've thought about doing
> the scanning myself. What scanner do you use?
>
I use a Microtek 120tf for scanning medium format film.

> I see that people use Vuescan. I googled it. Do you use it?  I know
> people use Imageprint for their printers and I know why, but I don't
> know why people use Vuecan.
>
I use Vuescan, SilverFast AI, and ScanWizard Pro with that scanner.
Depending on the task, each has features that are optimal.

> Sorry for the ignorance. I am a darkroom holdout.  The digital
> darkroom has a seductive quality, but my eyes like the look of silver
> prints still. Silver prints have the glow that you see in paintings,
> the glazed effect. Digital has yet to achieve that. The new papers are
> promising, however.
>
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, there is a matrix of technologies
that can be used: film capture and optical printing; scanned film and
printing on an inkjet printer; scanned film and printing with a device
such as a Lightjet, to name a few. Using a Lightjet, which uses a laser to
write the image to silver-based print material, the prints have the
"silver glow" that you speak of because it prints on the same materials
that one uses in the darkroom. Each approach has its own "look", and
requires good practice and skills to control the image.

Best regards,

Neil

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