>>2976451Thanks anon.
>>2976478Thanks for the comments. Always like to hear others thoughts.
>>2976496My Jobo has been wonderful and saved me so much money on developing. Depending on how much I have to develop, I can do either c41 or e6 for about 40 cents per sheet. It's so damn cheap. The Jobo keeps the temperatures just perfect.
I've just done dry scans with the Epson, no special holders or anything. With 8x10 you can certainly get away with this setup. Could I get better results with a drum scanner? Absolutely. I'm just not down for sending all of my film out and paying those sort of prices for scans. Maybe if I ever need a huge tax write off and can find the space I would purchase one but not likely as the learning curve to operate would be insane. One guy offered to drum scan a few for me for free, so I sent this one which had unsalvageable shadows on my scanner. The drum scan came back with a surprisingly usable image so there definitely is a huge difference.
>>2976503I think I'm ok with the one partially broken one I have and the functional one. If I ever break the second one it's probably time for an upgrade.
>>2976509Glad to hear it!! I have a ton of blog posts where I talk about my scanning and editing process, here's the link to several of them here:
http://www.alexburkephoto.com/educational-blog-posts/ 