Like many of you I expect of my age group (a grandad!), I have lots of old 35mm and 16 on 120 B/W and colour negatives and want a scanner that will do justice to the inherent high definition of photographic film.
Now, various companies offer A4 scanners with "built-in" film scanning but many of these seem to just have the user lay the film on the scanner plate where it occupies, I guess, just a few percent of the normal scanned area used for scanning sheets of paper. Thus, surely, only a few percent of the max scanned pixel count can be deployed. In other cases it's quite unclear how the film is scanned.
Seems to me some sort of optical projection of the 35mm film is needed on to the total scanned area of the system.
Does anyone have knowledge of all this out there? The manufacturers never make it clear how their systems work.
Regards, Geoffrey C
Now, various companies offer A4 scanners with "built-in" film scanning but many of these seem to just have the user lay the film on the scanner plate where it occupies, I guess, just a few percent of the normal scanned area used for scanning sheets of paper. Thus, surely, only a few percent of the max scanned pixel count can be deployed. In other cases it's quite unclear how the film is scanned.
Seems to me some sort of optical projection of the 35mm film is needed on to the total scanned area of the system.
Does anyone have knowledge of all this out there? The manufacturers never make it clear how their systems work.
Regards, Geoffrey C
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