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Good enough film scanner for microstock
Phadrea:
I have been looking to invest in a good enough scanner for 35 mm slide and BW negs which I will further refine in Lightroom. Mostly it will be family archive but some images I could use as stock, especially retro images.
Would this do the job ? It seems highly rated
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Epson-Perfection-Scanner-ReadyScan-Technology/dp/B00ECBRW5E/ref=cm_srch_res_rtr_1
Deyan Georgiev Photography:
May be the best way to do it is your DSLR (FX)
sgoodwin4813:
Depending on the number of images you might want to just use a service (e.g., DigMyPics or Larsen). If it's only a couple hundred then that would be cheaper and much easier.
bunhill:
--- Quote from: Herg on July 17, 2015, 05:19 ---I have been looking to invest in a good enough scanner for 35 mm slide and BW negs which I will further refine in Lightroom.
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There is a huge amount of work involved in preparing film scans to a quality which will be good enough to be accepted as microstock. Even many of the large historical collections have given up scanning their libraries except to order. Some have scanned prints instead. Dust and scratches are the issue. Dust and scratches are a much bigger issue with scans than they were with traditional printing.
Unless you are in possession of incredibly unique, valuable and in-demand images this will not be an investment. The cost of the equipment is not the issue. The issue is the time and bother involved in correcting the scans. There is also a steep learning curve with respect to color correction.
Also - Lightroom is probably not the best software for fixing dust spots. Since you will likely be dealing with hundreds of spots per scan - so Lightroom will quickly slow down when that many non destructive adjustments are applied - all of which have to be kept in memory. I have done dust correction in Lightoom on a Mac Pro with lots of memory and found that I needed to export a new version about every 10 minutes rather than deal with the lag. You would be better using Photoshop or similar.
Some libraries will accept un retouched scans for editorial use if the content has historical value.
Tryingmybest:
Epson is the best brand for what you're doing. You might find this video helpful:
https://youtu.be/hZSN6hcRNec
--- Quote from: Herg on July 17, 2015, 05:19 ---I have been looking to invest in a good enough scanner for 35 mm slide and BW negs which I will further refine in Lightroom. Mostly it will be family archive but some images I could use as stock, especially retro images.
Would this do the job ? It seems highly rated
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Epson-Perfection-Scanner-ReadyScan-Technology/dp/B00ECBRW5E/ref=cm_srch_res_rtr_1
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