Dear fellow LuLaers,
I am working hybrid with MF film and a Nikon LS-9000 scanner.
Some time ago I stumbled over scanhancer (
www.scanhancer.com) , a diffusor material created to better the problem with grain aliasing and other quirks conncted to scanning film.
I contacted Mr. de Goederen from scanhancer and he told me, that tests for scanhancer with the Nikon LS-9000 have not yet been very successful, as opposed to the use with other scanners (Minolta). He believes that this might be due to problems on the user side with the process.
Since the Nikon 9000 is not such a special scanner that it shouldn't be possible to significantly enhance scans from it with the diffusor we agreed he'll send me some material to do tests.
My interest in this is to enhance my own scans.
What I'd like to do is to do tests with and without the scanhancer material and with wet and dry mounting using the Kami fluid.
I'll do this with the Nikon glass holder.
My question is:
Is there anyone interested who whould be able to help with the testing by providing film negatives with images from the imatest slanted edge target, taken with a good lens to compare the various scanning methods:
1. Dry mounted, vs wet mounted
2. scanhancer / no scanhancer
3. Single Pass / MultiPass scanning
4. Super fine scan / normal scan
this would result in a comparison of 16 scans
I myself only have a Mamiya Press / Universal I will use to do "real world" tests, but I'd also like to get MTF charts (therefore imatest target) comparing the various scanning procedures.
I myself neither own imatest, nor a test chart, so I'd need someone with access to both and willing to help (by producing the negatives and analyze with imatest the scans I will produce ) to find out how much the scans can be optimized by the various methods and their combinations.
Goal is the optimum scan.
Anyone interested to help?
Cheers
~Chris
Disclaimer: I am in no way commercially involved with scanhancer, just a personal interest in scanning and getting good results.