‘The Wheel’ with some tweaking in Lightroom, the lab version rust looks like rust, the grass is greener and the rainy sky is less smoggy Plustek 8100 with Silverfast – no more yellowish cast…. Resolution seems very good and much less sharpening artefacts. The Opticfilm scan has much more natural looking color, though a bit less flashy and perhaps some light yellowish cast…. ‘The Shed’ had an obvious magenta cast to it in the lab scan. Plustek 8100 with Silverfast! This is much more like that wall looked in reality! Just a tad on the red side perhaps but easier to correct as the Vuescan version I might go back to the spot to check the real colours of the scene….Īnd I tried Silverfast once more, and I must say that I am impressed with it’s color rendition! Handling is still sh.t of course. Plustek scan – not matching colours, but the overall sharpness is very much OK and it looks pleasing to me. MeinFilmLab scan, processed in Lightroom – Olympus XA2 with Fuji Superia X-Tra 400 Of course, it’s hard to get exactly matching colours. Here are both versions, let’s check them out. And these examples are processed quite quickly as I wanted to submit this comparison and get your feedback.įirst, the cover photo for my former post, ‘DO’. Mind you, the Opticfilm scans have NOT been sharpened. Also I scanned using Vuescan which I think is quite old fashioned, but excellent! I’ll try Silverfast (once again) but I detested it’s cumbersome interface the last times I used it and I don’t think this will change. I scanned at a resolution f 3600dpi on the Plustek – I compared with the maximum resolution of 7200 and as there seems to be a very slight advantage, the file sizes are HUGE (400Mb for a color scan…). This can weigh in heavily on the result of the comparison. Always keep in mind that a B&W film, developed and scanned by my lab at 3600 x 5400 dpi is 19€ (there are lesser resolutions for a little less money available…), not counting postage to the lab. I scanned some of my negatives that were processed by MeinFilmLab some time ago and here I want to give you my results. Of course I bought it from Amazon as I want to test if this really works for me this time. and what’s more, the 8200 is about 100€ more expensive. In short, I went and ordered (again) a Plustek Opticfilm 8100, not the 8200 because I prefer B&W and the infrared cleaning features don’t work on B&W film…. And it’s true, outsourcing the scanning process is not always entierly in favour of keeping control! But we do it also because we want to keep control over our pictures. Why do we shoot film? Well, we like the cameras, the feel of film, the look of film and the smell of Rodinal in the morning…. And I still think that the time saved by having a lab scan your film is invaluable.īut then along came KJ Vogelius with his wonderfully detailed post about his scanner…. I wrote it because I wholeheartedly believed what I said. Ahem, Ok, I guess I have some ‘splaining to do here. Some time ago I wrote this post for 35mmc, in praise for expensive outsourcing of film development and scanning.
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