I scanned the same photo 3 different ways.
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I scanned the same photo 3 different ways.
1. Fuji Frontier
2. Nikon Coolscan 8000 ED with VueScan + NLP
3. Nikon Coolscan 8000 ED with VueScan color inversion for Kodak Portra settingPros and cons to each type of scanning.
Once I get NikonScan working, I will compare that as well.
Right now my 2 main fave ways to scan are with Fuji Frontier (I rent it at a darkroom) or with my CoolScan with VueScan and NLP.
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@skinnylatte The color inversion one is bright but it feels like the wrong kind of bright, if that makes sense
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@middleclasstool yeah the default settings are quite off for Vuescan for out of the box inversion. It’s an easy fix, but it’s also work
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@skinnylatte Which one do you think turned out the best?
We attempted to scan a glossy photo on a home scanner, and the colors were weirdly oversaturated. I ended up carefully taking a photo of the other photo, and hopefully it is good enough.
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@sepdroid the Fuji is always the best out of the box. It’s the machine that photo labs use when you get them to scan. The other 2 are home scanners so anything even vaguely close to the Fuji makes me happy. Comes down to diff workflows
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@sepdroid for scanning a printed photo try Google PhotoScan. I use it to keep a record of childhood pics when I visit my parents
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@skinnylatte Interesting. lots of color differences. I notice the blue/purple area under the counter holding the straws the most. The first is really blue while the others trend towards lavender. Which one is truer to the original? The Fuji?
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@CavedaleRhones there’s no true in color photography, everything is about preference
I like colors that pop so I like the Fuji but some people prefer flatter color images. It’s all an interpretation, just like our cameras and even our eyes are an interpretation of the world
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@skinnylatte I like 2 the best. Feels most like I’m there seeing it with my eyes, but maybe that’s not the point of every photo
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@chad thanks! I like 1 and 2, 2 is something I feel I have more control over as I’m tweaking it a lot to look like what I remember so that’s my interpretation, but the Fuji is an interpretation of the machine I used to scan it
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@skinnylatte Thanks for posting this! Out of curiosity, have you had much luck scanning negatives on a flatbed scanner? I recall that working at least as well as a dedidcated (home) film scanner for B&W work (mostly Polaroid 55) the last time I was scanning lots of negatives.
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@mattblaze I don’t like flatbeds as much but may go that way soon for 4x5. I think they’re fine if you have good holders. I’ve had mostly crappy ones so far.
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@skinnylatte My family business was a photo lab. The Fuji Fronteir was a workhorse - we had two of those machines.
The digital photo printer on the Frontier was also great.
I miss those days.
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@skinnylatte I don't even want to know what a frontier costs, but I want it
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@enot haha it’s like 200lbs
But yes out of the box jpg scans are very good and you can scan 8 rolls an hour
https://www.sebastian-schlueter.com/blog/2018/3/7/the-magic-fuji-frontier-sp-3000
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@Champagne I love these machines. Try to use one whenever I can (I can rent them hourly)
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@skinnylatte very cool, I wonder how it does with black and white.. I would love to develop some rolls and just feed them to a machine and get decent images without the need to process after. I also love printing with chemicals and paper but sometimes other people want their whole roll done and it's like "do you realize how much time that takes by hand?" Right now it's just an old eos t3 and a macro lens which works fine with an intrepid compact enlarger for the light source. But then I have to process still.
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@enot it’s not so good with BW.. the Noritsu is better. Honestly CoolScans are still great for home workflows for color and bw and slides
