Paid full price for a Canon 9900F flatbed for document scanning and its ability to scan Medium format ( and larger ) film. In the years since 2003, like most people into photography and technology, I have picked up bits and pieces over the years. This is the same scanner I am still using today. So in 2003 I took the plunge and bought a Minolta Dual Scan 3 ( Minolta DS3 ), it cost about 300 pounds. Of the market Minolta had a good name and appeared to have a good product. Some were expensive, some were more reasonably priced. Had been using other products and could give honest feedback on the products.īy early 2003 many film camera manufacturers were making their own film scanners ( Canon, Minolta, Nikon being the main ones ). I decided to wait a year or two until people
It was awful, poor scans, slow and buggy. The first scanner I purchased was a Pacific 1800u in the early 2000's. I needed a method of scanning my film archive onto the PC. With the move to digital in the early 2000's, This resulted in a stack of negatives and slides. The background to this comparison is that I have been taking photos for over 40 years, the first 25 on film. Note that today if you have a high-end digital camera, a macro shooting capability, a method of mounting and backlighting your film /slidesĪnd good Photoshop skills you can scan your negatives / slides without using any of the options I use ( dedicated film scanner or flatbed with film scanning options ). So this is a write up of a comparison I have done of different film scanning devices. Due to the current Coronavirus lockdown ( April 2020 ) its given me time to do a few of those " I must do that one day " projects.
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