I have been scanning film for about eight months now and while it is
undoubtedly tedious I think it worthwhile, as I never get more than
about 6 images from a roll that I really want to do something with, and
scanning 6 negs individually does not take that long. With colour print
film I would say just get it developed and printed as usual (I'm sure
the cost saving of dev only is not going to be that great as dev /print
is what labs are set up to do). You then have prints that you can use
to decide which you want to scan (as has been mentioned, 'reading' a
colour neg is very hard). You also have the bonus of having a set of
prints for those middling people-shots that you might not want to blow
up big or play around with, but you still think your mum might get
something out of seeing.
James
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> James wrote:
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> I would like to end of with all my photos as *good* *quality* imagines
> in
> my computer or at the very least all subsequent photos.
> At the moment I use an OM3 and just take print film. When I get my
> print
> films developed I also ask for them to be scanned and burnt onto cd.
> However the quality of the scans it not good and I have no way to
> specify
> the quality. They are quite heavily Jpeg compressed and don't come
> close
> to the originals in terms of quality.
> So as far as I see I have four courses of action open:
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> 1. Buy a scanner and use a shops print film developing and get 7x5
> prints
> and scan them. (larger prints are not ecconomical for me)
> 2. Buy a negative scanner get the print film developed at a shop and
> scan
> the negatives avoiding the cost of getting prints made
> 3. develop the film myself and use a negative scanner
> 4. buy a digital camera body and use my olympus and tamron lenses
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> I am looking for a good comprimise between quality and cost per photo.
> I
> don't mind if the inital set up costs are quite high.
>
> Any thoughts on the way to go?
> What I don't want to do is have to give up using my om equipment.
>
> Regards
> James
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