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Major artefacts introduced by X-trans sensor samplingįor 120, artefacts introduced by the stitching software used And for B&W, there's no contest: camera scanning is 10x faster.Īrtefacts introduced by Bayer sensor sampling In my case I initially was getting better results with the scanner, but as I gained experience with color inversion tools, and introduced some time-saving presets to my workflow, I'm doing mostly camera scanning now. Obviously the light is different, but overall you get the idea - both scanning methods produce comparable results.
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Both scans have the characteristic "film look" to them, because Superia is not a pro emulsion. Here's Superia 400 from DSLR and here's the same film scanned with Plustek. Leaving pro-films aside, let's take a look at consumer 35mm film. As you can see, DSLR scans are more neutral and realistic, while scanner adds a certain "look". example of Portra 400 DLSR scan and here's Ektar 100 and here's Ektar scanned with Plustek.
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In reality, professional emulsions from Kodak and Fuji are very life-like, when scanned well. They think they're getting "film colors". Silverfast "negafix" film profiles are opinionated and introduce all kinds of color casts that are mostly likable by people. I find scanners to produce cartoonish colors by default. This is very, very tricky for variety of reasons. You also need to have a good light source, and most importantly - you must have a good workflow to invert color with negative film. And a well-aligned, stable copy stand to have your film facing the camera perfectly. But you also have to have a good macro lens. They have less noise and more dynamic range. With a DSLR you have a lot more variables! Yes, the modern CMOS sensors in DLSRs are much more advanced than linear CCDs in Plusteks. With a Plustek (or anything else, really) that limit is not that high. You have to master the software, but ultimately the hardware sets the limit of what's possible. With a scanner, you have the hardware and the software (Silverfast or NLP). That's because DSLR scanning is more nuanced. I'm getting very mixed answers here regarding scan quality. Do you want to tinker with a repro hack and a 2K$ DSLR or enjoy film photography? Up to you :) I guess in theory you could get exceptional results with a super expensive DSLR based setup provided you spent the time to optimise every link in the chain up to the industrial standard to which say a Coolscan 8000 or 9000 are optimised.
I have seen countless people complaining about poor results only to find they were mostly expecting a plug and play solution. As stated, I think you'll find that most complaints about the Plustek or any other film scanner for that matter, will be due to operator error.