You're welcome. There is no truly "fast" way to scan negatives and transparencies while still getting the best quality from them. The best I've been able to come up with in 20 years of scanning practice are reasonably quick ways to do a few scans of 35mm, or fewer of medium format, or a couple of Polaroid prints, at high quality.
For medium format, I've taken to using an old Leitz copystand device coded the BEOON: it fits either my M-P or SL (with appropriate adapter), a Leica M 50mm (or Micro-Nikkor 55mm with adapter) lens, and lets me copy 35mm up to 6x9 film as fast as I can switch frames underneath it, focus, and make an exposure, netting 24 Mpixel raw captures to work with. Very rigid, very nicely made, rather specific to either a Leica M bayonet or thread mount body. I used a Sony A7 with it too, with an M -> A7 mount adapter. The results are excellent with transparencies, but take time with both B&W and color negs to invert and get the tonal scale right. I have several LR presets and custom camera calibrations setup to help with it, but it's still time consuming. For "thousands and thousands" of film exposures to scan, I'd just bite the bullet and go to ScanCafe.com to have them all scanned at pro grade resolution. They do an excellent job at a reasonable price, and with that volume to scan, well, I'd rather work on culling and finish rendering the scans than the tedious job of scanning. That's worth the money to me; my time is more valuable than that. G > On May 31, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Malcolm Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for your comments. > > In my case, I pretty much know I'm looking for the impossible; a much more > rapid way to transfer slides to digital images. I know that the Epson I use > does a great job, but it's a slow process, and I have thousands and thousands > still to do. As I've found from the Epson, larger dpi scans above 4000 tend > to show up imperfections in - or rather on - slides, such as really tiny > specs of dust which even with decent cleaning and dust reduction still show, > giving more work in Lightroom at a later date. > > A K3 sensor sized image is really all I need, but it is keeping the quality > that the scanner provides that is the issue. Some of these scans from slides > I enlarge to A3 prints after work to correct all the howling errors, such as > 100% level horizons etc have been adjusted all these years on. The fact I can > restore or improve pictures taken in the 1970s still amazes me, but now I > want it faster. Some people, you just can't please. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
