Best Scanning for 35 mm negative film

[zquek]

Hi, I hope to pick on the forum users' experience on scanning services for 35 mm negative film. Which service provider / labs give the best scans. Good if can share your experience on the colour accuracy and details.

 

[ziggy]

I second that. My understanding is that most will scan the films om flatbed scanners, which is not good enough.

 

[ed9119]

I believe Kim Tian at Hong Lim uses a film scanner

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[greengoblin]

Colorlabs @ Adelphi

 

[Shawn]

You can use this guy. He has several dedicated scanners including a Nortisu. http://carousell.com/p/104924215/


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[milaurie]

You can use this guy. He has several dedicated scanners including a Nortisu. http://carousell.com/p/104924215/

Is this carousell guy named 'Shawn' also ?

 

[Shawn]

Is this carousell guy named 'Shawn' also ?

I believe his name is Muthu.


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[ziggy]

You can use this guy. He has several dedicated scanners including a Nortisu. http://carousell.com/p/104924215/


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Does he have other dedicated film scanners like the Nikon Coolscan? The Noritsu is not good enough. In his carousell post, he said scan resolution of 3000x2000 which is only 6MB, not exactly very hi res.

 

[Shawn]

Does he have other dedicated film scanners like the Nikon Coolscan? The Noritsu is not good enough. In his carousell post, he said scan resolution of 3000x2000 which is only 6MB, not exactly very hi res.

3000x2000 is for basic scans. His higher tier scanning uses the Nortisu LS600 which goes up to 24 megapixels, 6XXX by 4XXX. Each file is around 70-80MB. For Xpan it will be 10,980 by 4011, each file around 126MB.


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[ziggy]

3000x2000 is for basic scans. His higher tier scanning uses the Nortisu LS600 which goes up to 24 megapixels, 6XXX by 4XXX. Each file is around 70-80MB. For Xpan it will be 10,980 by 4011, each file around 126MB.


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For scanning, most important is the reading resolution in dpi and density. Nikon Coolscan 8000 is 4000 dpi and density of 4.2, 14-bit. My previous Coolscan IV already has a 2900 dpi and 3.6 density 12-bit, which was my minimum quality. Can't find such data from the Noritsu. File size alone is not enough.

Guess I'll pass and continue looking for someone with a proper scanner.

 

[oceanpriest]

Perhaps can try this. Saw it on the facebook group.

https://spark.adobe.com/page/uXLO2afNd6fmY/

 

[Nikonzen]

People are starting to scan with their dslrs now. It is the new thing. It makes a lot of sense too when you have huge mp rigs and clinical micro lenses.