Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Kenneth Sky on February 23, 2006, 02:25:43 pm
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Mark D Segal
Thanks for a very edifying article. How would you compare the time spent per negative vs. post production with dSLR? What if you were scanning 30 negs at a time on an Epson 4990 with Sliverfast ?
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Kenneth, sorry for delay replying to this, but I didn't notice you had started a new thread. There is another thread above where most of the traffic on this article has been occuring - anyhow no harm - just so you'll know I had no intention of ignoring you. I would say the average digital file that doesn't need much tinkering takes about 10% to 15% of the time that a scanning process would need to accomplish the same thing. The productivity differential is truly remarkable.
I don't know the Epson scanner at all - don't own one and never seen it in operation, so unfortunately I can't answer that question. Also, I've never done batch scanning. I work one image at a time. Maybe that's because I'm not in this to earn a living!
Mark
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I've got the Epson 4990. Rather soft on 35mm film I'm afraid. Even with MF film it's not as good as my Nikon 8000ED. This is a case where the high dpi specification can be misleading. I think the problem might be that the lens is designed to cover a maximum width of 8". This would be equivalent to using a 35mm film holder on an 8x10" field camera, I suspect, but I'm not sure about this.
Whatever the reasons, a dedicated 35mm scanner is going to give better results. I also experienced a problem with blocked shadows with the 4990, despite its purported high Dmax.