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Anonymous Thu 20 Oct 2016 04:03:22 No.2949776 View View Reply Original Report

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Film Noob here
>the general threads are useless edition

How does scanning negatives work? By that I mean, what would the quality and reslution be nce it is a digital file?

I would like to shoot some MF film and then have it scanned.. What sort of quality and resolution could I expect in comparison to my digital RAWS?

What file type could I expect to receive? AND What sort of flexibility would the file have in pst/ (again in comparisn to a digital raw file)

THNAKS

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 20 Oct 2016 04:18:59 No.2949787 Report

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>>2949776
>>the general threads are useless edition
Direct me to your post in the general and I'll score your original question out of 10 before helping you. I'm willing to bet it was a vague as fuck question.

The truth is that it depends entirely on what you're looking to do with your scans. Are you intending to print them, print them big? Just for web viewing? What size do you need for web if so. Do you have a digital camera, what's your budget for a flatbed etc etc.

>What file type could I expect to receive? AND What sort of flexibility would the file have in pst/ (again in comparisn to a digital raw file)
Depends entirely on how you scan senpai. Can't really give you an answer until it's known what you're looking to do and how you're going to be scanning.

Thnaks for reading my post.

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Anonymous Thu 20 Oct 2016 17:38:44 No.2950143 Report

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>>2949776
that really depends
here is one of my scans, after being cropped it can still print a native 24x24" 300dpi print, original file would have been 28x28" at 300dpi.

Hasselblad 500c/m 80mm 2.8 Planar T*
Fuji 160s
Nikon Coolscan 8000ed

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Anonymous Thu 20 Oct 2016 17:45:01 No.2950144 Report

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>>2950143
crop at 100%

Scans out of the coolscan can be Jpg, Tiff, or NEF.
Bit depth can also be selected depending on the scanner. Drum Scans are god but the CCD scanners can often do a pretty good job, and flat beds are good enough for some people, it depends on how much you want to spend.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Oct 2016 20:26:22 No.2950828 Report

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>>2949776
>By that I mean, what would the quality and reslution be nce it is a digital file?
Varies obviously depending on what you get with the effective resolution after you wrangled your shot (or shots, you can tile) through a lens onto a sensor.

Scanning with a higher-end DSLR/MILC can be advisable for a lot of "scans", they're usually doing it faster and better than actual scanners.

> I would like to shoot some MF film and then have it scanned.. What sort of quality and resolution could I expect in comparison to my digital RAWS?
Oh, as a service? Well, that depends on who is scanning it. Are they gonna use some shitty canoscan hackjob, or a Reflecta, or a Hasselblad / wet mount drum scanner? Or are they doing MILC/DSLR scans?

Only the Hasselblad / drum scan / good MILC or DSLR scans will give you actually really good resolution and quality, but having that done as a service will cost you quite a lot, and DIY or simply shooting with a digital camera from the start should quickly be interesting.

> What file type could I expect to receive?
TIFF might be the most common type of file.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 25 Oct 2016 06:39:23 No.2953008 Report

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>>2950828
>Only the Hasselblad / drum scan / good MILC or DSLR scans will give you actually really good resolution and quality,

Meh
NIkon scanners are every bit as good as the Imicon (hasselblad) scanners, and some of the Minolta scanners will give them a pretty good run for the money.

SLR scanning can be better than flatbeds and with enough time and money get close to (sometimes surpass) dedicated scanners. But to get there it is less work and more cost effective to buy a scanner or get someone to scan your shit.

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