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Originally Posted by RichB
Here are my rambling thoughts:
I've had a negative scanner for a few years, 35mm only, a Canon Canoscan FS2710, and I usually scan at the highest resolution; then manipulate the image in Photoshop, as required. You can always reduce the DPI, and resolution/information of the scan, but it's difficult to go the other way and increase it, unless you're a Hollywood/TV film maker, or a government agency, with big pockets!
As with most things, it depends on what you intend to do with the scans. Archiving, I'd recommend the highest possible resolution to capture as much information; especially as data storage is now so cheap, and you don't really want to be repeating the scanning process. Printing, well, you don't actually need a scan resolution higher than the printer can handle, unless you want to safeguard the scan image for whatever printer you may have in the future; in which case you're back to the maximum again!
It also depends on the film speed that was used, e.g. 25ASA would need a higher resolution than 400ASA, to capture the information down to the grain of the film layer.
Hope this helps.
Richard.
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Hi Richard and a warm welcome to you
its great to hear from people who share there experience's
Im using a Canon Flatbed Scanner not a dedicated film scanner you have: but its specs are v/good and is user friendly
Yes i agree high res scans are the order of the day and so far have 4 set ups for diff ASA Rated Films, 3 B/W & 1 Col all my files are Tiff due to the high resolution i use then use PS2 to correct any little tweaks
im still setting up for other types of negs & slides that i will be scanning . One thing ive noticed is that the negs dont always seem to sit flat after being in the film holder ( Heat Build up
) the focus seems to be slightly of
in the middle (its not the negs as ive got prints showing good focus ) so thats something im working on
to everbody so far thanks for you input and i hope to post my results in the near future
Regards Murray F/Kiwi