[pure-silver] Re: Presenting silver images on the web
- From: Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:51:22 -0600
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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