Photographic delight.
Yesterday, the scanner I ordered showed up. It's a Konica-Minolta DiMage Dual Scan IV. It scans 35mm negatives, positives and slides and can do 4-6 of each at a time. I hooked it up to my Mac, installed the software and briefly played with some negatives.
My first impressions are...
1.) It's WAY easier than using a flatbed scanner to scan negatives.
2.) It's decently fast (not really fast but not horribly slow)
3.) The scan quality is really good.
I scanned a couple different photos from different types of film too. One was a Kodak 800 speed film, and another was Fuji SuperG 200 speed. It's AMAZING how much more detail the 200 speed film has. I'm really disappointed in the 800, so much grain. Uck. I'll scan in some negatives that I have PhotoCDs for and compare Kodak PhotoCD with the scanner output. Should be interesting.
Now I need to figure out a process for scanning all of my negatives, processing them, tagging, sorting, organizing, etc. And then find a way to store them.
My first impressions are...
1.) It's WAY easier than using a flatbed scanner to scan negatives.
2.) It's decently fast (not really fast but not horribly slow)
3.) The scan quality is really good.
I scanned a couple different photos from different types of film too. One was a Kodak 800 speed film, and another was Fuji SuperG 200 speed. It's AMAZING how much more detail the 200 speed film has. I'm really disappointed in the 800, so much grain. Uck. I'll scan in some negatives that I have PhotoCDs for and compare Kodak PhotoCD with the scanner output. Should be interesting.
Now I need to figure out a process for scanning all of my negatives, processing them, tagging, sorting, organizing, etc. And then find a way to store them.