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scanning film with sd quattro

Started Mar 11, 2017 | Questions thread
Alan71410 Regular Member • Posts: 183
Re: Don't buy a film scanner
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Roger wrote:

Have you tried a Epson V800 wet mount? Although I have to admit I've never tried your way.

Well what ever works.

Have fun

Roger J.

I can see zero reason to start wet mounting negs when there is a far better, quicker and zero mess way. There's still the problem of a film scanner's fixed focus - if the emulsion isn't exactly in the plane of focus, wet mounting will do little other than render the whole image evenly out of focus.

Of interest might be the scan from one of my first B&W negs after a 5 year hiatus from film after I started using it again late last year, first is a 100% section from the V700 Photo using its standard 120 film holder, the second a 100% section using the sd Q-H as above, obviously best viewed at full posted size. Following this the Epson is now a paper weight wasting desk space with no real purpose in life except occasionally scanning documents, which is what scanners were originally designed to do, after all.

100% section Epson V700 Photo scan

100% section Sigma sd Quattro H

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