![]() ![]() The colors are much more alike than in the previous color comparison. Once again the lab scan has stronger contrast. Other than a slight difference in the crop, these are hard to distinguish from each other. But I’m not sure which look I like better. I could probably have Photoshopped my scan to get exactly the lab scan’s warmer look. The lab scan is warmer with more contrast. Both scanners did a great job of cutting through the base fog of this very expired film. These are hard to distinguish from each other at blog size. Nikon N90s, 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor, GAF 125 (Ansco Versapan) x-7/72, HC-110 B 6 minutes. Right away, you can see that the Plustek captures more of the frame than the Scan Dual, as the Scan Dual scan was not cropped. If you’d like to pixel peep, click any image to see it on Flickr, where you can see it at full scan size.įirst, a frame I shot in my Pentax ME SE with my 50mm f/1.7 SMC Pentax-M lens on Fomapan 200 EI 125, developed in Ilford ID-11 stock. All photos were Photoshopped to my liking at the time of scanning, and my liking does vary over time. The Plustek scan is always first in each pair. I’ll share a scan from each roll here from the Plustek, and for black and white a scan from the Scan Dual II, and for color a scan from the lab’s scanner. I scanned strips of Fomapan 200, T-Max 100, Kodak Max 400, Fujicolor 200, and 50-year-expired GAF 125, aka Ansco Versapan. I just stuck with VueScan, which recognized the Plustek instantly. I used to use it with my old Epson flatbed and found it to be so cumbersome as to be unpleasant. My Plustek came with SilverFast scanning software, but I didn’t install or use it. Holy cow, is the Plustek blazing fast compared to the Scan Dual II! I scanned a strip in the Plustek from each of the last five rolls of film I shot. She had heard me lament the long scan times I was experiencing with my otherwise acceptable Minolta Scan Dual II and decided to help a film photographer out. My wife bought me a Plustek OpticFilm 8200i SE scanner for Christmas. ![]()
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