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FLAAR Reports Nicholas Hellmuth AUGUST 2004 FLAAR Reports Nicholas Hellmuth AUGUST 2004 Scanning 35mm Slides and Negatives Scanning for Printing on inkjet and/or laser printers CONTENTS FLAAR Reports Introduction 1 Color Negatives 2 Scanning B&W or scanning Color to create B&W 2 How Much DPI do you Need? 3 Scanning for the Internet, or for Home or Hobby? 3 Toaster-Shaped Scanners for 35mm Slides and Negs 4 Older Scanners 4 Canon Scanners 2004 5 CanoScan FS2720U 5 CanoScan FS4000US 5 Konica Minolta Scanners 2004 5 DiMage Scan Dual II 5 DiMage Scan Dual III 5 DiMage Scan Dual IV 5 DiMage Scan Elite II 6 DiMage Scan Elite 5400 6 DiMage Scan Multi Pro 6 DiMage Scan Dual IV 6 Nikon Scanners 2004 6 Nikon Coolscan V ED 6 Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED 6 Auto-Loader (especially on Nikon scanners) 6 Batch scanning is better than auto-loader 6 General Information on Scanning and Scanners Licensing Information 7 Scanning objects with relief, or 3-D objects 7 If you wish to distribute this report to Newton Rings from flatbed scanners 7 other people within your company, please Scanning into the film grain 7 obtain a site licensing agreement for Sweet Spot 8 multiple copies from FLAAR by contacting Turnkey Systems or scanners as part of a package 8 Sheila Irving, [email protected]. Substantial discounts are available Using Scans on Stock Photo CDs 9 for licensing to distribute within your Kodak Photo CD 9 company. The advantage of a license is Other brands of scanners good enough for 35mm size 9 that you can opt for automatic updates. Older models of scanners or used scanners 10 You may have noticed that FLAAR Umax reports tend to be updated as additional 10 information becomes available. Epson Scanners 11 General Considerations 11 In some instances a license would Heidelberg scanners and LinoColor software 11 be available to distribute outside your Other Scanners: the ones used by professional company, including in other languages. prepress or photo labs 12 To distribute this report without license Scanner Software 12 violates federal copyright law. To avoid Data Asset Management Software 13 such violations for you, and your company, Sharpening 14 you can easily obtain additional copies Digital Imaging Software from www.wide-format-printers.NET. 14 RGB vs CMYK 15 Storage of your Digital Images 15 Heidelberg Caption for front cover: Where to Buy 15 scanner for slides and negatives at Other FLAAR reports on scanning FLAAR facilities in Guatemala. 15 Training and Books 16 FLAAR Reports Scanner Series 1 Scanning 35mm Slides and Negatives Introduction Scanning for Printing Every scanning expert once faced his first scanner on inkjet and/or laser printers and had no idea which button to press much less how to get a good scan. We all start from ground zero. You will be doing just fine after some practice. What is This report covers primarily scanning of 35mm negs crucial is to select the proper scanner and even more and slides. If you have medium format or 4x5 film to important is to have the best scanner software. scan, please look at our separate report on scanning those sizes. Although that other report is also for pre- There are two equally valid approaches to scanning. press users, it’s a good general introduction to what One is how to squeak by with the cheapest scanner. scanners are best for doing 2 1/4 inch medium format You can indeed get some rather good scans from an and 4x5 inch large format for photographers. Other economy scanner (if your original slides or negatives FLAAR reports on scanners are listed on www.wide- are exceptional to begin with). But that is not our format-printers.NET. approach. FLAAR is non-profit so we can’t afford a million dollar scanner anyway. Thus we ignore the The FLAAR reports on scanners and scanning price and instead concentrate on ascertaining what are brought to you as a public service by Nicholas is the best scanner for outputting your image at large Hellmuth and the FLAAR Digital Imaging Resource format or with any digital printer. If you worry about Center, Francisco Marroquín University. Research the price that clouds the issue of which is the better and evaluation of scanners is also undertaken by scanner. Dr Hellmuth and his staff at Bowling Green State University, Center for Applied Technology. Thus don’t be surprised that your favorite scanner (that probably got rave reviews in a popular magazine) If you have 8mm film or movie film to scan; sorry; we is either not included at all, or does not get such a don’t cover that. Those sizes are too small to enlarge hot review at the FLAAR evaluation center. This is and print at large format magnitude. Also, don’t cover because we have had an opportunity, over several document scanning. years, to inspect a wide range of scanners at all the major international trade shows in Germany as well If you need a document scanner (for scanning as across the USA. We also get detailed information thousands of letter-size documents), that is an entirely from a myriad of sources that are not available to separate kind of scanner where speed and efficiency consumers. Scanner companies will often tell us is more important than photographic quality. Hence surprising things that they don’t admit in their PR we do not cover document scanners at all. releases. Furthermore, we do actual tests with the best scanners that we find at these trade shows. If the If you need a wide format scanner for maps or magazine writer whose review you just read has had architectural drawings, we have a separate report on the opportunity to see what a Creo EverSmart flatbed these scanners. scanner did with the same images, then perhaps he or she might not have been so enthusiastic about the Scanning, digitizing, or digital photography of paintings lesser scanners that populate the reviews in popular for subsequent giclee production or for décor is magazines. covered in a separate series on giclee. We have lots of experience in all aspects of giclee and décor, both Another difference is that FLAAR does not accept scanning and printing. advertising. We do welcome corporate sponsorship and appreciate it when scanners are provided to The present report is for entry-level through pre-press our university so we can test them. But the people level scanning of 35mm slides and negatives. This who test the scanners are not paid by the scanner report is pertinent for printing on inkjet printers, with companies. You might also notice that FLAAR does laser or LED printers for desktop publishing, and for not use company PR photos, nor do we repeat scanning for offset printing as well. company PR releases (and definitely not the hype so popular in commercial ads). We do, however, have a definite bias towards the better scanners and are not FLAAR Reports Scanner Series 2 impressed with the output of lesser scanners. Thus Most good scanner software has features to assist we do not even review the Hewlett-Packard scanners with scanning color negatives. If you have to deal nor other $299 entry-level equipment. with color negatives, be sure you check the software before you buy the scanner. SilverFast, if it is certified Nowadays a scanner is primarily a plastic box with for your new scanner, can be purchased at any time glass on top and a light tube on rollers running up and used to overwrite the original scanner software. and down guidelines. What makes the scan brilliant SilverFast is usually better than the software that and gives you a masterpiece to enlarge on your digital comes with your scanner. printer is the scanner lens and the scanner software. Good software on a cheap scanner can do as good If you are still taking photos with color negative film, a job as lousy software on an expensive scanner. then stop, and use slide film instead. Transparencies And a really dedicated scanner operator can get a (which are positives) are much easier to scan than better scan from a medium priced scanner than a lazy negatives. Color negatives are not appropriate for operator on an expensive scanner who uses auto- digitizing. But of course no one realized this during the scan and then repairs the damage with Photoshop 1960’s, ‘70’s, ‘80’s, or ‘90’s, so lots of photographers after the scanning is finished. have legacy archives of color negatives. Color Negatives Scanning B&W or scanning Color to create B&W If you are scanning color negatives, these are tough If you want to produce black-and-white images with a due to the orange tone. You need either a professional digital printer, don’t use black and white film anymore. scanner software such as that available on a Creo You get far superior B&W images in the digital era EverSmart flatbed scanner, or try SilverFast. We have by starting with color, switch mode (in Photoshop) used the color-neg mode in the Scitex software but via multi-channel mode. In this manner you can work have not yet tested the similar mode in Creo’s current with all the color channels in black and white. If you version. Creo bought Scitex about three years ago. are printing to an inkjet printer keep your files always The scanner we tested back then was a $54,000 in RGB; let the printer driver or RIP software change Scitex flatbed with Scitex software. The updated the file to CMYK.
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