SOFOBOMO: sorting
M6TTL, 50 Hex, TMY2, Xtol
It took me less than a week to get all the film developed and scanned, so I’m a bit ahead of schedule. This was my first opportunity to put the Coolscan 9000 to the kind of daily use it takes to really get to know a piece of equipment. Somethings I’ve learned:
- You can have VueScan ring a bell when it is done, useful when you feel like leaving the room to read book.
- Click the box for Fine mode unless you want to find banding in your scans.
- The Coolscan 9000 is much more capable of dealing with full density negs than the ScanDual IV was, to the extent that I’ve started to correct my long running habit of under-developing.
- The two strip 35mm holder is great for big scanning projects. Yeah, it doesn’t hold the negs completely flat, , but I’ve only found one scan that showed obvious results of field curvature, and I suppose you could always rescan with the glass carrier later.
I’ve now got two weeks to put the book together from the raw scan files. Apart from one roll that I dropped while hanging to dry, the negatives are remarkably clean, so the post processing is just inversion and curve work, and I’ve already made my first pass at that while scanning. I’ll need to make a second and third pass, and go back and redo some of the conversions from the first pass, but here is what I’ve got so far:
“Apart from one roll that I dropped while hanging to dry”
Ha! That’s not a problem. When you drop the roll on the floor while wet, and then STEP ON IT, *that* is a problem.
Go ahead. Ask me how I know. :-)
Some nice shots compositionally – tough to get the full character of the print/scan with the small size image, but they look good. All with the Leica?
These look great; just wondering, how did you put together the contact sheet?
Why not cut your own piece of ANR glass to hold it down? I’m not familar with the 9000 so I may very well be off here. (as I usually am)
Paul, I think I’ll skip stepping on my films, but it is a universal truth that if you hang your negs to dry in the shower, when one falls, it will fall on the day farthest from the last time you cleaned the shower
Max, yep, all with the Leica and the 50 Hexanon, all on TMY2.
Chris, the contact sheet was done in the Output Workspace in Adobe Bridge.
Tom, I think a lot of folks do exactly that with the medium format holders. When I first got the coolscan, I did a bit of testing on negatives that I had flattened under a book for a few days. The scans weren’t noticeably better, but resolution is generally wasted on me anyway as I’m often shooting wide open and always hand held.