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[Beth Carter]

no red at all this time, unless you count the rusty mailbox. it was the end of the roll too. the walgreens down the street did a crappy job with the scanning, i'm planning on rescanning everything if i ever get around to buying that scanner i've been putting off for the past 2 years. olympus 35 sp and cinestill 800 with an orange filter.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Excellent Beth. Like this a lot and for a shop scan not bad at all, yet suspect if you had control of the scan the results could be improved I have not doubt.

 

[Beth Carter]

thanks julian. i have a bunch of old slides of my grandfather's to scan, but keep putting it off. prior to buying a film camera it would have been a one time use purchase, now i could at least scan the occasional roll of film.

 

[Brian Moore]

Beth I shoot primarily film as you know. I bought an Epson Perfection V500 a few years ago. I think I paid about $150 for it. It has saved me a lot of money because, when I was having film developed by others, I needed only to get the negs processed. It has been a great investment for me. I'm not pushing the V500 scanner (although mine has been very reliable despite flimsy negative holders), I'm just saying that as you shoot more film a scanner may ultimately be a good investment for you too.

Why the orange filter...?

 

[Beth Carter]

Beth I shoot primarily film as you know. I bought an Epson Perfection V500 a few years ago. I think I paid about $150 for it. It has saved me a lot of money because, when I was having film developed by others, I needed only to get the negs processed. It has been a great investment for me. I'm not pushing the V500 scanner (although mine has been very reliable despite flimsy negative holders), I'm just saying that as you shoot more film a scanner may ultimately be a good investment for you too.

Why the orange filter...?

i've been looking at the epson v500. just haven't made the plunge yet. i don't really have an office space or desk in my home, so figuring out storage is another issue. the orange filter was used because cinestill is tungsten balanced.

 

[Brian Moore]

i've been looking at the epson v500. just haven't made the plunge yet. i don't really have an office space or desk in my home, so figuring out storage is another issue. the orange filter was used because cinestill is tungsten balanced.

Ah yes,...Tungsten film. Forgot about that.

Well, my only issue with the V500 is the flimsy negative holders. However, they only come into play with 35mm film. You can also scan 120 film as well 35mm slides that are still encased in their little cardboard carriers. Oh,...one other issue I have with it is that it won't do an accurate "preview" of 120 film. In other words, with 35mm film the scanner will show you a small color corrected preview of each frame you have loaded before you hit the scan button. (You can load up to 12 frames at one time by the way.) You can make some batch adjustments to the preview images. For example, you could flip them all horizontal at once or vertical or you could inverse them all at once (which sometimes comes in handy when you are compelled to load a film strip backwards due to curl), etc. So, being able to preview is a nice feature. But for some reason, although you are supposed to be able to preview 120, it never seems to select the frame properly. You may only get half the frame. So preview is NG for 120. (You can still make pre-scan adjustments, you just have to do it individually for each 120 frame. However, this wouldn't be an issue for you at this stage of your film shooting since you're not shooting 120 yet I don't think.) By the way, as I mentioned you can load 12 35mm images at a time, but this is for a strip of negs. If you have slides already encased in their cardboard or plastic holders, you can load 4 at a time maximum. (I think you said you had some old slides to scan...?)

 

[Beth Carter]

Ah yes,...Tungsten film. Forgot about that.

Well, my only issue with the V500 is the flimsy negative holders. However, they only come into play with 35mm film. You can also scan 120 film as well 35mm slides that are still encased in their little cardboard carriers. Oh,...one other issue I have with it is that it won't do an accurate "preview" of 120 film. In other words, with 35mm film the scanner will show you a small color corrected preview of each frame you have loaded before you hit the scan button. (You can load up to 12 frames at one time by the way.) You can make some batch adjustments to the preview images. For example, you could flip them all horizontal at once or vertical or you could inverse them all at once (which sometimes comes in handy when you are compelled to load a film strip backwards due to curl), etc. So, being able to preview is a nice feature. But for some reason, although you are supposed to be able to preview 120, it never seems to select the frame properly. You may only get half the frame. So preview is NG for 120. (You can still make pre-scan adjustments, you just have to do it individually for each 120 frame. However, this wouldn't be an issue for you at this stage of your film shooting since you're not shooting 120 yet I don't think.) By the way, as I mentioned you can load 12 35mm images at a time, but this is for a strip of negs. If you have slides already encased in their cardboard or plastic holders, you can load 4 at a time maximum. (I think you said you had some old slides to scan...?)

haha, yea, 120 film won't be an issue for awhile. now that i've said that it'll happen later this year... thanks for the info, good to know the issues ahead of time so i won't be too disappointed. i do have some old slides to scan as well. my grandmother keeps pulling more and more out of the attic.

 

[Pete Askew]

Gorgeous tones and colours here Beth.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Like thos colours, the grass kind of shines.

 

[Beth Carter]

thanks guys. @Ivar D. Larsen this is near the marsh area so the grass is pretty vibrant in that area.