Friday, 15 July 2016

New Scanner and old film

Its been a while since i posted, but there has been a lot of things happening outside of my photography that has left me rather frustrated about not being able to spend time with my photography... BUT, i have also made a couple of fun little investments for my photography.
  The first is a brand new Canon CS9000F Mk II flatbed scanner.  For me the CS9000F fit my requirements perfectly, its affordable ($499 NZ) and it will scan 120 negatives, 35mm neg and slide AND with a little patience 110 film.
   I have over 100 rolls of 35mm film and about 10 rolls of 120 plus a few 110 films to scan, so i am going to be busy for a bit while i scan and archive all this film.
  On going into my old films, i randomly chose a few 35mm rolls and decided to start scanning. The results are just fantastic, one of the first films i grabbed were from 1994, so it was interesting to see them scanned up and ready to go.
Originally shot in 1994 with a Minolta Riva AF35 
Originally Shot 2002 on Canon EOS 500n

Originally shot on Canon EOS 500n 2004

  With the scanner set to 4800 dpi to get a feel for things, the first batch of negs scanned out to over 6800 pixels wide and 4500 pixels high, and an average of 14mb per JPEG,  or in megapixels, over 30 megapixels As you can see from the frames aboe, they came out pretty good.
  I then scanned a few 120 frames, and they at the same settings are over 9000 x 9000 pixels each frame and the JPEGs are 45mb in size!
Original image shot on Lomo Color 100 on Bronica S2a in 2016

Original shot on Lomo Color 100 with Bronica S2a  in 2016

 Ive also scanned some 110 frames now that i have the Lomo Digitaliza 110, this scanning mask for 110 i got from www.southerncameras.co.nz (its also where i get my film from too) the 110 takes a little more to scan than the 120 and 35mm frames  but come out at a shade over 3000 x 2400 pixels in size but that makes them pretty good size to do a little with..
PV-1 Ventura Brisbane 2016 Shot on LOMO Tiger 110

Brisbane 2016 Shot on Lomo Tiger 110

Brisbane River Shot on Lomo Tiger 110
Overall im pretty happy with the CS9000F mk II, i got a lot of film to scan but it will be worth it in the long run.


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