Molly Walters
(K=1284) - Comment Date 3/26/2003
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you might want to check into the cannon scanners and the minolta scanners, I have the nikon coolscan 4000 and if you ever decied you can buget that it is an excellent scanner.
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Jeroen Wenting
(K=25317) - Comment Date 3/27/2003
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I doubt you'll get a decent scanner that takes 120 format negs for under $1000, which is probably why you didn't get any cheaper recommendations.
Minolta and Nikon make the best (both in quality and value for money) scanners on the market today.
If quality is no issue, look for Primefilm. But don't get that unless you plan to scan only the occasional negative as the mechanical quality isn't good and they can break down after only a few hundred operations.
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R S
(K=294) - Comment Date 3/27/2003
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You may want to look at the Epson 3200 scanner.
I use it to scan both 35mm and 120 film and the results are not bad at all.
It's just under 400 dollars and people have gotten very, very good results from using it. (The one and only photo I have posted here is a 6x6 MF photo scanned using it).
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David Goldfarb
(K=7611) - Comment Date 3/28/2003
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The Epson 3200 is probably the best value if you don't need the high resolution of a real film scanner.
For medium and large format images for the web, I'm using the same method you describe--Coolpix 990 on a copy stand with a 5000K lightbox to illuminate the slide or B&W neg (for 35mm I use a 35mm film scanner). You can see the results in my gallery here.
I've used the Coolpix (3.3 Mpix--so about a 12MB tiff) actually to produce a file from a 5x7" transparency that was used by a printer to produce a 4-color postcard for a friend's gallery show, and the results were surprisingly good.
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Iain Burgess
(K=97) - Comment Date 3/30/2003
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I use the Epson 2450 with Vuescan drivers for my 120 film. The result are much better than you will get with a digital camera.
The replacement, is around $400USD and 3x faster than the 2450, which takes about 5 minutes to process a 212MB file (6x7 neg - 48bit 2400dpi). It is sharp enough, and unless you want to spend $1000's more. Have a look at: http://www.normankoren.com/Tutorials/Epson_flatbeds.html He has a good technical review of thes scanner nd its limitations.
Iain
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J Lyons
(K=69) - Comment Date 4/24/2003
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I use a Minolta Scan Dual III for $300 for 35mm negs and slides.
For medium format I am using a Microtek 5900, has built in 4x5 transperancy scanner, for $150. If i could have afforded it I would have bought the Minolta Scan multi for $2800.00 ouch Hmm digital camera for 1499 OK I give up.
JL
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