I got a new toy yesterday, and from my experimentations so far, I’m very impressed. The image below was scanned from a 35mm slide – click it for the full scan (5.1MB JPEG, 4800dpi, giving about 6000×4000 pixels, or 24 megapixels if you’re a digital camera type). The full-sized image is as it came off the scanner – no processing. It benefits from a bit of unsharp mask in Photoshop, but as 35mm film is supposed to be optimised for 3000dpi, I think a little bit of blur is forgivable.
So, anyway, the net result is that you’re probably going to see a lot more photos around here in the coming weeks and months, especially as this baby can do batch scanning.
Wow. cool. Does it scan APS film?
As well as all the plate things for doing standard film sizes, there’s a general transparency adapter so, in theory, you can stick anything see-through in there and it’ll scan it. So yes, it’ll do APS, but it won’t auto-crop each picture, you’ll have to do it by hand.
Does anyone use APS these days?
Looks great! Not having come into any money lately, I’m going to have to start a bit cheaper on the new scanner choice though.
I don’t use APS, but I have a stack of APS filmreels I need to scan at some point.