[Leica] Re: OT- Adfvice needed re. film scanner

[firkin at gexrp01.ncable.net.au (firkin)]

Colin,
I have the 5000 Nikon with roll film and slide feeders. It makes very fine 
scans when I get it right. I have a similar situation to you. I began with 
the slides. Kodachrome mounts do occasionally jam. I found that if the join 
was on the bottom, it could stick, so I had to scan upside down for many. It 
seemed to be going well with the Nikon software, but I had "strong" advise 
to use Vuescan: I'm not convinced by it, but it was also at that time that I 
stopped the slides and moved to the negs. Scanning negs has not been a total 
success. My idea of scanning a roll of 36 and walking off has not really 
worked, and I've yet to master colour balance from the negs. B/w scanning 
has been a real trial for me. I shot a lot of Rollei R3 film and the two do 
not mix. Nikon's only comment was: Rollei R3 is not on our list of 
recommended films" 

This year I have to solve some of my problems: I am storing images on 250meg 
hard drives and at 130 meg per image full scanning is out of the question 
for all images. So do you scan at a lower res, sort and organize then scan 
the good ones at a high res. Do you scan at high res and decrease file size 
later ( this is what I have done, but I don't have the time to play with the 
huge files and sort them !!!!!) 

I am more than happy to hear a good thread on this one: might help me. I 
certainly need help with negs and vuescan. 

Cheers 

Colin J writes: 


> 
> Is the LS5000ED the only choice here?  If there
> is anyone with experience of using the LS5000ED
> to scan some or all of the mix of films I listed
> above, I would be very pleased indeed to hear
> from you.  
> 
 


Alastair Firkin
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