On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Scott Loveless <[email protected]> wrote: > I have neither the space nor money for a large format enlarger. Which > means I'll have to scan it. What do you guys think about scanning > contact prints for web presentation and ink jet printing up to 8x10? > The budget is limited, so if I'm going to buy a scanner, probably a > V700, I'll need to lower the budget for the camera and lens.
If you're going to contact print and scan the prints, you don't need too fancy a scanner. A 4x5 inch contact print scanned at 1200 ppi is a 26 Mpixel image file to work with. That can be done pretty nicely with an $80 scanner these days. The key thing to do is to figure out the best prints to scan. That means, given a particular scanner, create a test grayscale step wedge and continuous tone image, scan that, and see what the scanner's ability to capture is given a base range of tones. Then arrange your exposure, development, and contact printing to produce scan originals that fit nicely in that range. Once you have that calibration, you can make some stunning photos this way. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
