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We all like film – but the modern world dictates we stand most chance of promoting our work via the web. This group is about how best we can utilise modern tecnnolgy to faithfully reproduce our work

Where do you get your scans done? (21 posts)

Topic tags: 35mm, negatives, noob, scanning
  • Profile picture of Paul Berry Paul Berry said 1 year, 3 months ago:

    I only once got a film processed & scanned at a high street lab for speed, needing the scans for the next day. It was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made. They did 120 so I mistakenly thought they knew what they were doing. I’m relatively new to the forum on here so I will not name the lab.

    When I got the results back the negs were ruined, being scarred, covered in grit and other rubbish, as a result the scans were terrible. Let’s just say they got a very stinky letter and I’ve never been back.

    Now I get my b/w done at Ilford and my colour done at Loxley’s in Glasgow.

    I’ve tried scanning at home, I have a Epsom Perfection 2450, but I’ve not got the hang of it and have never had a satisfactory scan.

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  • Profile picture of lumenosity said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    For my 35mm negative film work I have the film developed and scanned to CD by Boots in the high street. They use a fuji mini lab to do this and the resulting scans are more than good enough for publication to my website and to make small (6×4) prints. For high quality larger prints I scan the negatives myself on a CanScan 8080f (predecessor to the 9000f). This allows me to print up to A1 if I need to, though more commonly I will work at Super A3 (A3+) with great results.

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  • Profile picture of Serge Chabert Serge Chabert said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    I sent a few slides to be scanned by professional labs (I tried Loxley in Glasgow which has a horrible customer service , A+M Imaging in Edingburg and Farnell photographic) and the scans I received were horrible. I thought that the quality of the scan will be on par with the prices they charge but I found out the hard way that it is not the case.
    Somehow scans from negative done by Loxley are much better than their scans from slides.
    When I was in Paris, I used to go to a “Web cafe” that had a nikon Coolscan and the scans of my slide I achieved with that self service scanner were far superior than the scans I got from the professional labs mentionned above (I sent slides for them to scan that I had previously already scanned myself using the Nikon Coolscan at that Parisian “web cafe”. While the scan I did myself were superb, the scan from those labs were very bad quality).

    As a result I have been extremely disappointed with the so-called professional scanning services.

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  • Profile picture of Hans ter Horst Hans ter Horst said 1 year ago:

    I would also recommend an own scanner; I use the Epson v500 Photo for 120 film and a Nikon Coolscan V ED for my 35mm negatives. I don’t use the Nikon or Epson software, instead I use Vuescan. I didn’t get along with the Epson scan mask at all, so I bought a lomography DigitaLIZA which has made my life a lot easier.

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  • Profile picture of said 1 year ago:

    I use a V500 with an american film holder ( http://www.betterscanning.com/scanning/usinginsert.html ) which has ANR glass & is height adjustable to ‘focus’ on the film plane & it works a treat I use either Vuescan or Silverfast software depending on film type, if I am printing large then I use Tim Parkin’s fantastic drum scanning service ( http://cheapdrumscanning.com/ ) nothing cheap about the results, put it this way he does Joe Cornish’s work & Tim is a real gent to boot try his service out.

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  • Profile picture of said 12 months ago:

    The Images in my Album are all done on the Epson V500 with ANR glass in some cases, Epsons own software used which I find easy to use and gives decent results.

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