![]() ![]() It does fine work with black and white, and yields scans much larger than the older Scan Dual - 7200 dpi vs. ![]() The Plustek yielded a more turquoisey hue in the vehicle than the lab did. The colors are much more alike than in the previous color comparison. Once again the lab scan has stronger contrast. Other than a slight difference in the crop, these are hard to distinguish from each other. But I’m not sure which look I like better. I could probably have Photoshopped my scan to get exactly the lab scan’s warmer look. The lab scan is warmer with more contrast. Both scanners did a great job of cutting through the base fog of this very expired film. These are hard to distinguish from each other at blog size. Nikon N90s, 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor, GAF 125 (Ansco Versapan) x-7/72, HC-110 B 6 minutes. Right away, you can see that the Plustek captures more of the frame than the Scan Dual, as the Scan Dual scan was not cropped. If you’d like to pixel peep, click any image to see it on Flickr, where you can see it at full scan size.įirst, a frame I shot in my Pentax ME SE with my 50mm f/1.7 SMC Pentax-M lens on Fomapan 200 EI 125, developed in Ilford ID-11 stock. All photos were Photoshopped to my liking at the time of scanning, and my liking does vary over time. The Plustek scan is always first in each pair. I’ll share a scan from each roll here from the Plustek, and for black and white a scan from the Scan Dual II, and for color a scan from the lab’s scanner. I scanned strips of Fomapan 200, T-Max 100, Kodak Max 400, Fujicolor 200, and 50-year-expired GAF 125, aka Ansco Versapan. I just stuck with VueScan, which recognized the Plustek instantly. I used to use it with my old Epson flatbed and found it to be so cumbersome as to be unpleasant. My Plustek came with SilverFast scanning software, but I didn’t install or use it. Holy cow, is the Plustek blazing fast compared to the Scan Dual II! I scanned a strip in the Plustek from each of the last five rolls of film I shot. She had heard me lament the long scan times I was experiencing with my otherwise acceptable Minolta Scan Dual II and decided to help a film photographer out. So it is mainly a matter of taste.My wife bought me a Plustek OpticFilm 8200i SE scanner for Christmas. In the end it is not what is better or best, but you think it best suits the photo. It doesn’t make although a world of difference. The intervention of NegativeLabPro makes the colors appear a bit more neutral, more sharp and more contrasting. Scanning negatives with the built-in color profiles, adding sharpness goes well in both packages and with Silverfast also a bit faster. Both Epsonscanner and Silverfast have excellent solutions for this, but only for the TIFF variants. What certainly does not work are the RAW files with no possibility of improving dust, scratches and dirt on the negatives. But straight from the scanner, the negafix for me does not set the light right, the colors although seem fairly accurate. Of course this can be edited in Silverfast or other editors. Negative scan with Negafix Kodak Portra 160Īlthough these are fascinating scans, the light does not reflect the actual situation as I remember it, it looks too dark.In both cases we used Digital Ice.įinally what about just scanning with Silverfast? Each upper photo, the negative is scanned as positive (without Epson’s color profile, without added sharpness) and in Lightroom as TIFF converted to positive with NegativeLabPro. In the three examples, the bottom photo in each slider set are the result of a ‘normal’ negative scan, with Epson controlling the sharpness and colors (2400 Dpi). But most of all, Digital Ice technology completes the software because it reduces dust, scratches and stains to a minimum. Many settings are available to adjust sharpness and colors. First we show you three examples of working with the Epson Scansoftware that comes with the scanner.Īs discussed earlier, this software is very suitable for making high-quality scans. We did however not use VueScan for our review, since Silverfast is in our opinion upfront more versatile software. In addition, all packages work together with the (separately to purchase) plugin for Lightroom, NegativeLabPro. The most commonly used software packages are Epson Scan, VueScan and Silverfast. Earlier we reviewed the V600, an excellent entry-level scanner, but in order to also work with large format negatives, we have to upgrade to the 7 or 8 series. For our examples, we use the Epson Perfection V850. After our earlier article on scan software, requests came in to also show some examples of the differences between Epson, Silverfast and in conjunction with Negativelabpro plugin for Adobe Lightroom.
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