>>3249564Hey /p/, I'd really like some help.
I've been shooting film since January and I've really been enjoying the experience of home developing and scanning B&W film. I've gone through the standard set of Ilford films, and I'm going to be trying out either Porta or Ektar soon and developing them in a local darkroom.
My problem is, I just finished shooting, processing and my first roll of Pan F, anticipating a whole new level of clarity in my images, and instead they looked completely soft and full of noise at anything greater than 1200dpi. I thought it was odd, because I'm using the same Zeiss lenses which when adapted outresolve the FF 21mp sensor on my DSLR, and as far as I can tell Pan F is meant to be basically as finely grained as film can get. At this point looking through my older scans, it was clear that nothing I had shot was anything but soft at >= 1200 dpi. Only my medium format scans came close to 8mp total resolution (at low dpi) and they were with an uncoated lens from 1937. Looking at the Pan F shots I now noticed frankly pretty shit levels of digital noise and aliasing which I had assumed previously were just an error.
So, it turns out, despite its incredibly handy film auto load feature, my Epson 3590 photo is bunk. Can anyone please, please recommend a flatbed A4 scanner which will do transparencies and will get around 8-12mp out of a 35mm negative (i.e. go to 24/3200 dpi without looking like the negative's been smeared with Vaseline.) which can be found at the 80-100 £/euro mark used. The Epson Perfection V370 Photo looks ok and I know their software still works on Win 8.1, but I'd rather avoid Epson because I wasn't very happy with this experience (1/3 of claimed optical resolution.)
