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March 30, 2014
35mm film shooters will be happy to hear that German imaging company, Reflecta , has announced a new almost-pocket-sized slide film scanner that can scan up to 10,000 DPI. The ProScan 10T is advertised to have a DR of 3.9 DMax. Here s the kicker cr2032 - it comes in at a surprisingly low 469 (just under $650). As reported on The Phoblographer , the current highest resolution consumer film scanner is the Pulstek OpticFilm 8200i (as its name would suggest) scans up to 8,200 DPI. While not officially announced in the US yet, it will likely be rebranded as a Pacific Image product. [Via The Phoblogapher & heiseFoto ]
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The only modern-day 120 scanner cr2032 is the $2000 Plustek OpticFilm 120 scanner. It unfortunately does not have a glass carrier option, although Plustek cr2032 claims their film holders ensure flat mounting, which I would take with a grain of salt.
Also, like many modern scanners, it is a prefocused system, so you can't focus on the surface of the film, you would have to take it on faith the unit is calibrated to be more or less on the film plane. For 2 grand the thing should be able to focus, as far as I'm concerned. My guess is that it relies on post sharpening to compensate for any focus errors, which I absolutely loathe. Years back an ad agency that I worked at spent 50 grand on a Heidelberg Tango photomultiplier tube drum scanner, only to discover it too was prefocused and had no aperture control. Fifty grand for a drum scanner you couldn't focus or adjust aperture! It would apply a nasty dose of unsharp masking to compensate for it's focusing error, which was quite great! The ringing artifacts were a nightmare when compositing.
However, the Plustek is the only game in town for a personal 120 film scanner, save for some leftover new Nikon Super Coolscan 9000s, which are going for over 6 grand(!). If you need a 120 film scanner, I would at least give the Plustek cr2032 a try and if it doesn't cut it for you return it within your return warranty period. http://plustek.com/usa/products/opticfilm-series/opticfilm-120/
These scanners are made by Pacific Image, and they have a 120 scanner that you can get at B&H for $1400: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/884302-REG/Pacific_Image_primefilm... What's interesting about this scanner over the $2000 Plutek 120 scanner, at least if the information in this article is correct, is that is has the ability to focus. cr2032 Here is an article on the scanner, branded under the Braun name: http://www.filmscanner.info/en/BraunFS120.html If it's true that this scanner can focus, this is the best presently available 120 scanner.
I am definitely interested in this scanner! I have years of film that weren't scanned to CD. I will continue cr2032 to shoot film (Canon A-1 and F-1N) alongside cr2032 digital (Canon cr2032 5D Mk III). I hope to do a shootout with Kodak Ektar 100 vs digital; it won't be apples vs. apples since Ektar will be using Canon FD 28mm f2.8 and digital will be a Canon EOS zoom lens somewhere between 70mm to 400mm.
Those resolution numbers are all fake, typically true resolution is half, third, or quarter. Still sufficient resolution for most film. Anything over 4000-5000 dpi is just scanning film grain. I have the long discontinued Minolta DiMAGE 5400, which is probaly the last true res scanner made, and at 5400 dpi you're scanning grain.
The best personal scanner that I know of is still the discontinued cr2032 Nikon Coolscan 9000, because it was the only scanner I'm aware of that had a glass mount option, which is necessary to maintain focus across the entire cr2032 image. Any slide or negative warp (which they all have) will have your edges out of focus when you're focus centrally. The Coolscan also scanned to true 4000 dpi, and could scan medium format film.
I'm intrigued by this but I've been put off by lots of reviews of the more 'affordable' film scanners. I currently have a Nikon Coolscan cr2032 V ED on loan from my workplace, but I suspect they'll cr2032 want it back at some point! (We no longer use film at work so I was going to propose cr2032 buying it off them) They're so expensive on eBay though!
Interestingly, I've only just really started shooting film again - there's something wonderful in the process that's teaching me a lot about photography and building my passion for image making again. In the future, I'll definitely want an affordable film scanner - hopefully they'll continue to release products like this!
Anyone had any luck getting the Nikon film scanners working on Windows 7? I've got it working on Vista but since reformatted my laptop to Win7 and haven't tried since...allegedly the drivers no longer work (but official supported ended with XP so there's hope)
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