kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy

I appreciate knowing about the Epson scanners. They seem like the way to go for ultimate quality, and the only way to go with larger film.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

That is why scammers are better and in the end much faster

Bill P

What I really want is a Hassselblad flextite X-1 but I've go no money.

What would be even better is a person that could rebuild my two Minolta scanners.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Scammers? That's one for DamnYouAutoCorrect.com. (good one!)

Yeah, scammers take your money. Scanners just take your time.

therwol Loc: USA

The more expensive Epson scanners (V800, V850) are the ultimate in flatbed scanners, but dedicated film scanners and carefully photographing slides and negatives with good equipment can achieve somewhat better results. The strong point of the expensive Epsons is the ability to scan large format negatives, even as large as 8x10.

I realize that this thread has probably run its course. I want to finish by showing a couple of photographed slides of my parents in a hotel in Boston 45 years ago. The film was High Speed Ektachrome, push processed by Kodak to ASA 400. (Normally 160. You paid extra for the extra speed at the time of processing.) This is not high resolution film, and it's rather grainy compared with Kodachrome. It was the best they had at the time for taking "high speed" color.

These slides were photographed RAW. The camera was my Nikon D810, lens 55mm f/2.8 AF Micro, taken at 1:1. I did minimal post processing in Lightroom. Just some mild color correction and removing a few, but not all blemishes. No sharpening. I'm going to go back and fix them up a bit when I finish moving to a new house when I'm not busy with the move. These are wall hangers.

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therwol Loc: USA

And finally, an example of a photographed negative, Photographed RAW and processed in Photoshop with the Color Perfect plugin and with minor post processing after that. The original film was Kodacolor II. The picture was taken in 1969, 50 years ago. Yes, 50 years ago. I always thought that my Kodachrome slides would hold up much better than my negatives over time. Not always true.

Another wall hanger of my parents, but I'll need to lighten it up and juice up the color a bit first. Again, no time at the moment while I'm moving.

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Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Add to 8x10 film the Epson scanners can do ALL your ancient photos that the negatives are long gone like mine from the 1800's of my family that many were taken in some long forgotten studio. No film scanner at any price can do that so a quality flat bed Epson scanner does that as a bonus.

JimmyDK

Thanks for the Vue Scan tip. It works great with my Nikon 4000ED. I went with the Pro version. I really appreciate this tip.