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I scanned the same photo 3 different ways.
1. Fuji Frontier
2. Nikon Coolscan 8000 ED with VueScan + NLP
3. Nikon Coolscan 8000 ED with VueScan color inversion for Kodak Portra setting
Pros and cons to each type of scanning.
Once I get NikonScan working, I will compare that as well.
Right now my 2 main fave ways to scan are with Fuji Frontier (I rent it at a darkroom) or with my CoolScan with VueScan and NLP.
@skinnylatte First is my favorite there, but they all look good to me
@middleclasstool yeah the frontier is the best. That’s what labs use
@skinnylatte that fuji pop
@skinnylatte The color inversion one is bright but it feels like the wrong kind of bright, if that makes sense
@middleclasstool yeah the default settings are quite off for Vuescan for out of the box inversion. It’s an easy fix, but it’s also work
@skinnylatte Which one do you think turned out the best?
We attempted to scan a glossy photo on a home scanner, and the colors were weirdly oversaturated. I ended up carefully taking a photo of the other photo, and hopefully it is good enough.
@sepdroid the Fuji is always the best out of the box. It’s the machine that photo labs use when you get them to scan. The other 2 are home scanners so anything even vaguely close to the Fuji makes me happy. Comes down to diff workflows
@sepdroid for scanning a printed photo try Google PhotoScan. I use it to keep a record of childhood pics when I visit my parents
@skinnylatte Interesting. lots of color differences. I notice the blue/purple area under the counter holding the straws the most. The first is really blue while the others trend towards lavender. Which one is truer to the original? The Fuji?
@CavedaleRhones there’s no true in color photography, everything is about preference
I like colors that pop so I like the Fuji but some people prefer flatter color images. It’s all an interpretation, just like our cameras and even our eyes are an interpretation of the world
@skinnylatte @CavedaleRhones well the buckets change color, and that's not subjective/preference.
edit: guess it's a stack of trays, not a square bucket.
@stacey_campbell love tekka
@skinnylatte I like 2 the best. Feels most like I’m there seeing it with my eyes, but maybe that’s not the point of every photo
@chad thanks! I like 1 and 2, 2 is something I feel I have more control over as I’m tweaking it a lot to look like what I remember so that’s my interpretation, but the Fuji is an interpretation of the machine I used to scan it
@skinnylatte Thanks for posting this! Out of curiosity, have you had much luck scanning negatives on a flatbed scanner? I recall that working at least as well as a dedidcated (home) film scanner for B&W work (mostly Polaroid 55) the last time I was scanning lots of negatives.
@mattblaze I don’t like flatbeds as much but may go that way soon for 4x5. I think they’re fine if you have good holders. I’ve had mostly crappy ones so far.
@skinnylatte My family business was a photo lab. The Fuji Fronteir was a workhorse - we had two of those machines.
The digital photo printer on the Frontier was also great.
I miss those days.
@Champagne I love these machines. Try to use one whenever I can (I can rent them hourly)