Your questions tend to ignore some other key issues. Even if the resolutions and quality of digital cameras have improved to the point of competing with flatbed scanners or even film scanners when it comes to the results or even if one uses high quality flat field normal and/or macro duplicating lenses, one has to deal with issues of maintaining the film in a flat state without curl or bowing, flat and even color corrected lighting of the film, and finding software that will be able to both reverse and account for the orange masking on color negative film without causing unwanted color casts and shifting.
Of equal importance, one would have to establish and utilize a traditional copy stand setup to keep the camera stable and without shake for longer exposures at the proper distances given the lighting and light levels being used as well as allowing for the use of filters over the lights for purposes of softening the lighting as well as polarizing the lighting and correcting it for color temperature, depending on the nature of the subject film being rephotographed if one is to seriously engage in using a digital camera to digitalize films. One might also find a need to utilize filters over the lens of the digital camera to account for variances in the color characteristics of the films in question with respect to the types of camera sensors being used. I have not used Vuescan in a while and have not kept up with all the updates of the software; but I have to wonder if it can be used to color correct and account for the orange masking of color negatives when used with camera raw files generated by the higher quality digital cameras. I have the feeling that one would have to convert the camera raw files to standard file formats like TIFF and JPEG before one could engage in any post production image editing and correction using Vuescan. ----Original Message---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Using high res digital camera for scanning/duplicating > Is the technology to the point yet where we could use a high > quality duplicating lens and a high resolution digital camera > (Canon/Nikon 12-16mp) to digitize slides and negatives. > What would the potential pitfalls be? > Would Vuescan work to color correct the negatives? > > Forgive me is this subject has already been discussed to > death. I've been away from the list for a few years. > If has already been addressed someone please direct me to the > archives. > > Thanks > > Bob Kehl > ImagesByKehl.com > online for four years - thanks to this group > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------- > Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe > filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) > in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body