How are the results of scanning 35 mm negatives color or b&amp;w? let's say from 1 to 10 (1 being horrible and 10 great resolution). Thanks
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The product is excellent. I can rate it as a 9 when you scan negatives or slides that are in good shape. In my case I have slides from the 60's and 70's that are not in great shape (around 40%). Those images didnt come out great and I had to adjust the color on Photoshop. However, this isnt an issue related to the product but to the slides I have.... some of them were even moldy. Other than that, the images come out perfect.
1193375
I've had no problems with poor quality scanned photos. The default is set to 300dpi, have you tried increasing it to 600dpi? That's what I always use and that works for me. I believe the max is 1200dpi. You may want to play around with that setting and see. Also don't be fooled by the scan preview, it's not an exact representation of what the scanned photo/doc will look. Hope that helps.
563947
Yes, it will. Focus very carefully, and don't let stray light hit the film from the sides. I cover the sides with black paper or tape.Shoot RAW and process at 16 bit. I scan BW negatives as positive color or Kodachrome slides, then reverse the negative to positive in Curves in Photoshop, and bring in the end points as needed. Works great.
295011
I have never used it, but there is a menu choice in professional mode for either black and white or color negatives. I have used it to digitize slides as jpeg files and it worked fine.
1720147
My experience with the Pandigital for color and black and white photographs is absolutely wonderful. I love this machine. For negatives I am using another machine a negative converter to digital. You can find them everywhere, in Bestu Buy, Amazon.com and inclusive in Walmart. They are very inexpensive and work wonders on negatives. Again, I love my Pandigital but I use it only for photographs. I hope I was able to help. excelent
636030
I'm sure either one will do a pretty good job for you. Fwiw, I purchased the Epson v500 for the simple reason that it has ICE Technology which does an absolutely amazing job of cleaning all sorts of debris/artifacts/dust et al from both slides and negatives. The hours I've saved not having to hand manipulate each image are numerous to say the least. This was the second time I've had to scan my full slide collection after the first set (over 500) was wiped out by a virus. This time was MUCH easier w/ the V500. Also, the quality of the scan improved a great degree so maybe the virus was a blessing in disguise afterall :-) Btw, I had no problem whatsoever setting it up on my Dell Vista OS. YMMV ... Cheers and good luck !
2120759
If your negative is color the scan will be in color. I believe you have the option to change it to greyscale or black and white but I have never used that option.
1222749
I have some black and white 35mm negatives from 40 years ago. The result I got was more than I expected and was as good as I can ever get. Considering what options I have, or you have to digitized the B & W negatives inexpensively, there is no better option. I had a darkroom, enlarger, wet trays...and take hours to get to the print 40 years ago. I can now digitize the B & W negatives and go to Photoshop and do burn and dodge on the computer screen. Well, the younger photographer never knew that "burn and dodge" as from the photo enlarger era.
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I believe they are strips of 35mm negatives. I don't know much about photography so I wasn't aware there were different size negatives. I didn't really use mine to scan negatives. I mostly scanned printed photos 4x6 or smaller and was very happy with that. I scanned some mounted slides and it is a slower process with mostly good results though darker slides seemed to become grainy.
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It will scan to Mac. I can't 100% say for sure about black and white negatives as I haven't tried this. The slides we had were from the 60's and 70's so some of the negatives were faded and I thought the scan was accurate to the faded color of the slide
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B&w; slides or color all work the same. The device digitizes the image which can then be manipulated in any editing program. Negatives can be inverted into positives. I use the free irfanview program which has in the Image header a Negative option. It also lets you perform some basic contrast/ brightness changing, but a mediocre image can not be turned into something better than what is in the picture.
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Hi Jay, I have to say I'm puzzled as that is not what I experienced when I have scan negatives. You are not scanning slides are you? I have tried that. I'm sorry if I am not much of a help.
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I have scanned several photos and they come out very well. I think the max resolution is 600DPI which is probably about as good as the quality of the photograph itself. The larger the photo the clearer the scan will be. I found the saving the pictures as a .pdf seem to give you a little better quality than a .jpg and also works well if you are using a MAC.
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The image shown on the preview screen is positive for both b&w negs and colour negs...the colour negs show in true colour. The definition of the pics when scanned is very dependent on the quality of the image on the negative, it can fall short of perfect anyway but the only true way of getting the best out of a negative is in the dark room. Having said that the scanner does a good job overall for a relatively cheap price.
1279908
I think it's just maybe compatability with the camera type?I email/messaged Impossible Project about it. They said it was definitely the film's fault, not the camera's... But I don't think there's a whole lot that can be done to change it. They're old cameras and an old process, basically it's just not compatible. But the color film worked wonderfully. So, I'd say just use color film and steer clear of B&W;, even though that's kind of a bummer.
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I no longer use this unit for color negatives. There is reverse vignetting, a general excess of blue between dark gray and almost white, and a large absence of red and even green that is centered in the darker medium tones. I have many black and white negatives that I have not tried yet because I have older 1.5 million pixel scans of them. Theoretically speaking, I expect that the reverse vignetting and color problems would be much less visible on conversions of black and white negatives.
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I'm looking for a way to scan the negatives too. FilmscanUSA has an adapter that supposedly works. I have tried to scan a 110 negative and it works but because the 35mm slot is too big it is hard to keep the negative in place.