Scanning 35mm & MF negs at home

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Can anyone tell me please if it's possible to get good quality A3 sized home prints using scans of 35mm & 6x6cm or 6x4.5vm negs on something like an Epson V750 or V700? If not then what's the maximum size I could get from a scan before IQW starts to noticeably drop?

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Chris
 
No problem on the medium format negs - I've used an epson 3250 to scan stuff that was printed at 80x60cm with decent quality. You'll be pushing it a bit with the 35mm scans though - that's where a dedicated scanner such as a Nikon Coolscan or one of the Minolta Duoscans will help.
 
you can get A3 prints off the medium format quite easily, you should be ok with the 35mm but it may be pushing it if the film is grainy
 
well - based on scanning at 2400dpi...

35mm film
24mm x 36mm - 2267x3401px - 7.7Mp

6x4.5 120 film
56 x 42mm - 5291x3968px - 21Mp

6x6 120 film
56 x 56mm - 5291x5291px - 28Mp


6x7 120 film
56 x 67mm - 5291x6330px - 33.5Mp


Personally, I've had some highly acceptable A3 prints from 35mm scans, anything over 200px per inch will print well enough for viewing at "framed - on the wall" kinds of distance - now if you're hoping to do full 2xA4 facing pages, viewed at a foot away - then away to a drum-scanner you go!
 
Chris L said:
Can anyone tell me please if it's possible to get good quality A3 sized home prints using scans of 35mm & 6x6cm or 6x4.5vm negs on something like an Epson V750 or V700? If not then what's the maximum size I could get from a scan before IQW starts to noticeably drop?

Cheers,

Chris
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This guy is happy:-

http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson V750/page_8.htm

But haven't tried myself...... but had a lab enlarge a 35mm shot of mine and it's very good, and you can judge the size by the packet of cigarette and I used flash and ruined my shot of my shot.
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Thanks very much for all the info guys :)

robhooley167 said:
you can get A3 prints off the medium format quite easily, you should be ok with the 35mm but it may be pushing it if the film is grainy
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Sorry about all the questions but would you say its a case of something up to say 160ASA being ok but 400ASA being too grainy or is it more specific as in some 400 ASA films are ok but others are too grainy even in their lower speed versions?
 
Depends on the film, the new Kodak Portra 400 for instance is extremely low grain for a 400 speed film, but some others may be quite grainy. Remember that it also depends on how close up your viewing it, from 1.5m away it may look quite fine grained, but upon closer inspection it could look significantly more grainy.
 
TheBigYin said:
well - based on scanning at 2400dpi...

35mm film
24mm x 36mm - 2267x3401px - 7.7Mp

6x4.5 120 film
56 x 42mm - 5291x3968px - 21Mp

6x6 120 film
56 x 56mm - 5291x5291px - 28Mp


6x7 120 film
56 x 67mm - 5291x6330px - 33.5Mp


Personally, I've had some highly acceptable A3 prints from 35mm scans, anything over 200px per inch will print well enough for viewing at "framed - on the wall" kinds of distance - now if you're hoping to do full 2xA4 facing pages, viewed at a foot away - then away to a drum-scanner you go!
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So as far as 6x4.5 and 6x6 negs are concerned would there be any/much difference in print quality when comparing a scan done using an Epson V500, compared to a V600, compared to a V700 and finally a V750?
 
Chris L said:
So as far as 6x4.5 and 6x6 negs are concerned would there be any/much difference in print quality when comparing a scan done using an Epson V500, compared to a V600, compared to a V700 and finally a V750?
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I dunno - I've got a Canon 8800F :lol:
 
Biggest problem I've had is film flatness. It always seems to curl along its width and the holders don't keep it very flat, so not had very good results with 35mm on the V700.
 
Gandhi said:
Biggest problem I've had is film flatness. It always seems to curl along its width and the holders don't keep it very flat, so not had very good results with 35mm on the V700.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'd almost certainly be buying the Betterscanning negative holder to use with whichever scanner I bought :)
 
I had Imacon flextight, Minolta Multi Pro, Epson scanners. I found that despite more advanced characteristics of Imacon, its speed and performance (especially dinamic range) you still can get quite good results even with a cheap scanner. At list it should be enough for web. When I need something with maximum resolution I hire an Imacon. But most of the time a lab scans 2000x2000 is enough to decide what images are good and what are not. I recently used new Kodak Porta 400. If a photo is properly exposed the grain is almost invisible. But if you push the photo during PP the grain can become much more visible. You can check my previous threads ('Taxi' and 'Isle of whight') to see photos taken with new portra 400 and scanned at 2000x2000 at Genue Imaging lab.
 
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