AboutMartin Seymour Expertise I have worked in most aspects of still photography, using film and the wet process for 50 years. Employing all film formats 35mm to 8x10 sizes, I went over partly to digital cameras in 02, also PC editing of pictures.
I still find film work more demanding , as you have to get it right at the start with no auto settings on the camera to cover my mistakes.
Pictorial work is my personal interest.
Its is not a good idea for me to suggest a particular make of equipment just a type, and its uses.
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Expert: Martin Seymour Date: 6/19/2004 Subject: scanning
Question Dear Martin, I am thinking to buy a film scanner, Ive looking on the net and I saw that the Nikon coolscan looks pretty good. I usually shoot velvia film and I was wondering if you think that will be a good buy. The scanner is the Super Coolscan 5000 ED (Nikon). I live in Ecuador, SouthAmerica and here is pretty difficult to get a good print out of slide so my idea was to scan all my slides and then print them out. Do you think is a good idea? thank you very much for your answer.
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Dear Martin, I am thinking to buy a film scanner, Ive looking on the net
and I saw that the Nikon Coolscan looks pretty good. I usually shoot
velvia film and I was wondering if you think that will be a good buy. The
scanner is the Super Coolscan 5000 ED (Nikon). I live in Ecuador,
South America and here is pretty difficult to get a good print out of slide
so my idea was to scan all my slides and then print them out. Do you think
is a good idea? Thank you very much for your answer.
Hi MARCO
Sounds like a good idea do you have some good software to make any further picture adjustments.
Nikon does make some very good equipment but you could get a cheaper product else ware. Also if your scanner of choice is versatile and some of your slides are still in stripes of 5 /6 some scanners can do a continuous process one after the other.
I take it you will only be using 35 m/m film as some scanners will also take 120 film!
Ecuador ! GREAT THING THESE E-MAILS.
