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Re: filmscanners: Acer or Nikon?
"Tony Sleep" <TonySleep@halftone.co.uk> wrote:
> I have grave reservations about recommending any of those scanners for
this
> use. IME Nikons are marginally worse due to their semi-collimated
lightsource.
I have an LS30 (the Nikon mentioned earlier) and would definitely agree.
I'm not very impressed with the results I get out of scanning silver based
B&W film.
> As a longer term workaround, the chromagenic B&W films XP2 and TMax400CN
> produce none of these problems and scan very well. I happen to like TCN a
lot -
> it gives great print quality in the enlarger.
And T400CN scans beautifully on the LS30. :) The lack of grain when printed
with
wet chemistry is amazing. Someone gave me the tip of exposing at EI250...
Rob
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