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Re: Hellos from Somerset....well Bristol anyway!
Welcome Tracey you will love it here.
I am about to take the plunge with mf, a good pro friend of mine is moving house and has entrusted me with his kit in the meantime which includes a mamiya (sp) and a huge bag of film that he says i Have to have a play with so who am i to argue 
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Pernim... Have fun, you cannt beat the feeling of a film camera, no distractions of viewscreen and histograms, no programmes, just you, a hunk of metal and a film!
Crimbo... Oh, not sure I am qualified enough for an article, having only just worked it all out for myself but I would be happy to give some of my thoughts on the process if anyone wants.
The number of times I have sat there swearing at the scanner when unable to get it right! Given that it can take an hour or two to get a high res scan from a neg thats a lot of time lost to the wrong settings!
So worth it though, when it goes right. I cann't wait to see Martins prints come back to me, very excited about the new stall set up
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Re: Hellos from Somerset....well Bristol anyway!
please do tell us your recipe for a good film scan...
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quote:
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please do tell us your recipe for a good film scan...
And a jam roly poly 
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Bill...A jam rolly polly? Yum!! As long its smotherd in custard. Mind you, everything tastes good smotherd in custard
Scanning, hmmm a minefield. Everyone seems to have a different way of working but this is mine:
I use an Epson 4990 flatbed for medium format film and Vuescan Pro software. After trying a couple of different software I found the Vuescan gets the best result and seems more intuitive to use, though theres quite a lot to it control wise. The pro version is best as it allows you to scan as RAW, keeping the final scan and allowing you to adjust it after the scan has finished! That can be really helpfull. Then you can save it as a Tiff.
The software is fairly easy to get used to and offers a range of film types but the Kodak settings seem the best overall. I tend to scan as 4800 res, 48bit colour, to get the maximum info, with multiple passes (this depends on your scanner software though). Vuescan actually suggests that for some black and white film you should scan as colour if it has a noticable base colour, like the Kodak. I use mostly Fuji Neopan 400, high grain but I like that most of the time.
I tend to scan to cover the spectrum, so scans come out a little flat, and then adjust them in photoshop for a more dynamic range. You can fully adjust whitebalance and black and white points, though its best to set both to 0 and colour channels to 1.
The height from the glass is vital in scanning and most good flatbeds come with neg holders which are supposed to be the right height but as every scanner is slightly different it pays to experiment. I have found a single neg holder cut from a dvd case seems to give the best results on my scanner! You can also wet mount with anti-newton glass but I have never tried this method.
Then its off to photoshop for the final work. Scanning takes a long time at high res but its worth it as set up correctly you can get a lot of info from a scan. For 35mm though I would suggest a drum scanner as I never seemed to get good enough results for prints from a flatbed. 120 film though is perfect.
I suppose I could shoot all digital since my post processing is effectively digi but I love film and it still seems to have more soul than digital for me.
I hope this slightly garbled post may be usefull for anyone looking to scan, If you are I would definatley say give vuescan a go.
Tracey 
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