Stephen, having beena photography teacher for 45 years I want to congratulate you on your teaching skills and manner. I've rarely seen any instructional video as good as this.
Really appreciate this tutorial mate! I've been discouraged by the below average results of slide scans from the included software on my Epson V600, but I'm keen to try your method now!
ok this is probably the best video i have seen to help me out. i have about 1000 single shot B&W negs ( many different sizes ) taken from the 1920-1970 given to me 30 years ago by a local photographer here in south Wales uk. have spent a while trying to decide the best way to get therm out to a wider audience, scanning them in by a local company is far to expensive, so im going to try it myself, thanks for helping me to decide what actual scanner to buy
Thanks for sharing these tips, tricks AND those beautiful photos!!! That said, please be sure to properly & fully disclose, as required. As both a viewer & consumer, your compliance would be greatly appreciated. Stay safe & be well.
My provia lab scans looked super dull and dark. Then I viewed my slides on a light table and I was blown away by the colors. Glad to know the error was in the scanning/post, and not in the film/exposure.
My scanner is in storage for a few months. To help, try printing a USAF 1951 chart on A3 paper. Take a photo of it using your film camera and a telephoto lens. Once you have the film developed, scan it at different heights and pick the holder height that looks the best. This is how I did it.
How are you going? Im in your shoes - I'm hoping there is a way with the batch scan that I don't need to tweak each slide individually, using the auto settings for histo, color correction, iSDR etc.
Yep, definitely curious to see your approach for height adjusting i.e. focus adjust your scanner. You used a focus target for that? I created one for myself and printed onto a transparency.
Hi Stephen. Thank you for a great video. I'm struggling scanning my bw negatives on my Epson V800 taken with a Horizon 202 panoramic camera. You wouldn't happen to have any tips for me? thx again.
@@StephenMilner I have, and while there's a lot of needed help in there it does not touch on the issue of scanning this exact format. My problem is that I can't seem to change what the scanning thinks is one negative - so my panoramic photos get cut in width... writing this makes me feel a bit stupid, I'm sure there a pretty easy fix :-D
I read that the densiometer doesn’t influence the actual bit depth, you change that in the dialog at the top. I would however go for 48bit, not 48->24. Regarding image corrections such as levels / histogram and sharpness: I prefer to do that in Photoshop as I believe that High Pass filter for example is more superior than USM in Silverfast.
Silverfast is the best scanning software, I use it with a Prime Film XE's for my 35mm film. I use my epson scanner for medium format scans and I use the epson software as I find it better with my epson scanner it just for some reason works better.
Great video and very timely. Just embarked on scanning 2400 family slides from my grandfather going back to 1962. Question: What light table do you have? Could not find it in the description.
Antonio Carlos Silva Antonio Carlos Silva 1 segundo atrás ola! preciso de ajuda tenho um scanner epson v750, fui ligar apareceu a luz verde e logo depois um barulho e ascendeu a luz vermelha piscando
I've seen the film scan comparison you've mentioned of Nick Carver some weeks ago, the best I've seen so far! You've scanned a beautiful photo, Velvia 50 is a great film for this kind of scenes.
Now retired and have time to digitize slides and film. I am using a Prime Film scanner and Lightroom.....but have a problem with Lightroom not allowing Tiff file to be moved to external drive after editing. Have tried converting to dng but not having a lot of success, any suggestions would be appreciated. Russ....Perth oz
@@StephenMilner Yes and Lightroom is not accepting TIFF with message Read only file, but this is not the case. Very frustrating as never had problem importing RAW from my camera direct to L/Room....I will keep searching. Thanks
Pro tip for blowing the dust: take your frame or negative up and blow from down side (opposite what you did on a movie) then all the dust blown by air is falling on the desk not back on your negative.
Hi Stephen: Thanks for the calibration video and this one but have a question. I have calibrated for ektachrome with Wolf's slide and saved. I am now scanning 4 by 5 ektachrome film and after I set as transparency and positive, how does it know that is is Ektachmore and not fuji. Is there someway I tell Silverfast? Some choice I need to make in prescsan or before final scan?
Someone made a comment on my calibration video on this. In preferences, you can switch on custom names for multiple ICU profiles. When calibrating, you can save it with custom name and then select it as an Input in the preferences.
Stephen Milner thanks mate. I’m in Hamilton and have just ordered a v800 off trade me. Don’t do any film stuff these days but have a load of 35mm slides & negs to digitise and work on
Ofir Berman Hi. My iMac is 6 years old and it works great. If it does slow your MacBook down you can upgrade its RAM very easily. RAM can be bought from Crucial and installed by yourself.
@@StephenMilner Thank you so much for replying. I asked because I have a large amount of 1940's to 1980's negatives from my mom and you can imagine what they are like as they are just stuffed in a box. I bought an Epson V600 to see if I can digitize them to share w/ family. But I want to preserve them as much as possible. I need one of those rocket dusters and cotton gloves. I wonder if Nitril gloves would work?
I edit the scans in silverfast itself and then when i actually scan the images they look completely different, why is this? I dont have this problem with negative film
Thanks for getting back to me! Yep, all on the MacBook Air. I’ve sent you a message on Instagram, there’s a video on my story showing what’s going wrong, that might help explain it a bit more
By luck I had the chance to buy a drum scanner for relatively "cheap" end of last year because a artbook production company nearby sold it and I have to say, for sure it gives you the best results possible but its a lot of work and takes its time. So I manly print in the darkroom but when I just want ja quick scan the V850 is still the fastest way to go and as long you don't need really really high quality scans a drum scan is not worth the time. I use mine like 1-2 Times a month for my self, mostly I use it to scan other peoples work. Sure the quality is great but 80% of the time it just doesn't make any sense for me.
Edler Herren Club you are lucky to have one. I sometimes look for them on eBay and more locally. They don’t seem to come up for sale often. I have had great print results from my V800. Thanks for watching.
Stephen, having beena photography teacher for 45 years I want to congratulate you on your teaching skills and manner. I've rarely seen any instructional video as good as this.
Thank you 🙏 Very king of you to say so ✌️
Really appreciate this tutorial mate! I've been discouraged by the below average results of slide scans from the included software on my Epson V600, but I'm keen to try your method now!
Never knew how much you have to do in post to get the best out of the images. Excellent video, it's a great guide!
ok this is probably the best video i have seen to help me out. i have about 1000 single shot B&W negs ( many different sizes ) taken from the 1920-1970 given to me 30 years ago by a local photographer here in south Wales uk. have spent a while trying to decide the best way to get therm out to a wider audience, scanning them in by a local company is far to expensive, so im going to try it myself, thanks for helping me to decide what actual scanner to buy
Thanks for sharing these tips, tricks AND those beautiful photos!!! That said, please be sure to properly & fully disclose, as required. As both a viewer & consumer, your compliance would be greatly appreciated. Stay safe & be well.
Thanks for the comment and feedback! I am not sure what are you wanting me to fully disclose?
Stephen Milner give the people what they want ste 😂
My provia lab scans looked super dull and dark. Then I viewed my slides on a light table and I was blown away by the colors. Glad to know the error was in the scanning/post, and not in the film/exposure.
Please do a video on adjusting the height of the holder as you said. Thanks
My scanner is in storage for a few months. To help, try printing a USAF 1951 chart on A3 paper. Take a photo of it using your film camera and a telephoto lens. Once you have the film developed, scan it at different heights and pick the holder height that looks the best. This is how I did it.
Great video Stephen, finally received my Epson V850 after a . Now to scan 5,000 plus slides
Thanks man, Nice! The batch scan feature works well and with two slide holder it will speed things up for you.
How are you going? Im in your shoes - I'm hoping there is a way with the batch scan that I don't need to tweak each slide individually, using the auto settings for histo, color correction, iSDR etc.
Thank you just got my new V850 40 years of photos
Nice, good luck. Batch mode in Silverfast works well.
Yep, definitely curious to see your approach for height adjusting i.e. focus adjust your scanner. You used a focus target for that? I created one for myself and printed onto a transparency.
I will do that video in the future. But, basically I took a photo of a focus chart and then scanned it at each setting.
With transparencies, does the emulsion side face upwards or down in the holder, please! Thanks.
Down. You should be able to read to text on the film.
Hi Stephen. Thank you for a great video. I'm struggling scanning my bw negatives on my Epson V800 taken with a Horizon 202 panoramic camera. You wouldn't happen to have any tips for me? thx again.
Have you watched my B&W scanning video?
@@StephenMilner I have, and while there's a lot of needed help in there it does not touch on the issue of scanning this exact format. My problem is that I can't seem to change what the scanning thinks is one negative - so my panoramic photos get cut in width... writing this makes me feel a bit stupid, I'm sure there a pretty easy fix :-D
@@jonasskovgaardhansen Click on "frame", delete all existing frames, create one new custom size frame. Then stretch the new frame to cover your photo.
I read that the densiometer doesn’t influence the actual bit depth, you change that in the dialog at the top. I would however go for 48bit, not 48->24. Regarding image corrections such as levels / histogram and sharpness: I prefer to do that in Photoshop as I believe that High Pass filter for example is more superior than USM in Silverfast.
Silverfast is the best scanning software, I use it with a Prime Film XE's for my 35mm film. I use my epson scanner for medium format scans and I use the epson software as I find it better with my epson scanner it just for some reason works better.
Great video and very timely.
Just embarked on scanning 2400 family slides from my grandfather going back to 1962.
Question: What light table do you have? Could not find it in the description.
Sounds exciting. I got this one amzn.to/3bA0XJ5. It is A3 size.
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ola! preciso de ajuda tenho um scanner epson v750, fui ligar apareceu a luz verde e logo depois um barulho e ascendeu a luz vermelha piscando
I've seen the film scan comparison you've mentioned of Nick Carver some weeks ago, the best I've seen so far!
You've scanned a beautiful photo, Velvia 50 is a great film for this kind of scenes.
Fabrizio Zago - Photography and media thank you 🙏
Very good presentation 👌
Thank you 🙏
Very interesting video, you get better every time! Thanks for that! Greetings to NZ, Seb
Sebastian Trandafir thank you 🙏
Now retired and have time to digitize slides and film. I am using a Prime Film scanner and Lightroom.....but have a problem with Lightroom not allowing Tiff file to be moved to external drive after editing. Have tried converting to dng but not having a lot of success, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Russ....Perth oz
Hi Russ
Have you tried exporting the file as a TIFF?
@@StephenMilner Yes and Lightroom is not accepting TIFF with message Read only file, but this is not the case. Very frustrating as never had problem importing RAW from my camera direct to L/Room....I will keep searching.
Thanks
thanks but did not see which side of film, or slide to go face down on scanner. important?
Place the film in the holder so you can read the writing correctly and then place it on the scanner
Excellent video, is it better to adust the film balnce and contrast when scanning or okay to do it in Photoshop?
Thank you. I set my white and black points and adjust the mid tone then scan. I do the rest in Lightroom.
Please share the brand of that light panel on your desk. Thanks.
A3 Light Table amzn.to/3bA0XJ5
Good and informative video. By the way what’s the name of the large light table you have in this video? Thanks 👍
Thank you 🙏 Check out my gear link in the video description
@@StephenMilner Hi Stephen, I checked all the links but I couldn’t find it...
@@Squarespex A3 Light Table amzn.to/3bA0XJ5
@@StephenMilner Thank you Stephen 🙏
Great video for beginner ... learned a lot
Thanks, I’m glad it has helped you.
Thank you, well done. Beauty image.
The prices on these scanners are insane!
@PLANT MACHINERY VIDEOS that doesn't help me here in the States!
Pro tip for blowing the dust: take your frame or negative up and blow from down side (opposite what you did on a movie) then all the dust blown by air is falling on the desk not back on your negative.
polymer68 thanks for the tip
Hi Stephen: Thanks for the calibration video and this one but have a question. I have calibrated for ektachrome with Wolf's slide and saved. I am now scanning 4 by 5 ektachrome film and after I set as transparency and positive, how does it know that is is Ektachmore and not fuji. Is there someway I tell Silverfast? Some choice I need to make in prescsan or before final scan?
Someone made a comment on my calibration video on this. In preferences, you can switch on custom names for multiple ICU profiles. When calibrating, you can save it with custom name and then select it as an Input in the preferences.
Hey from NZ too......great video ! Where did you get your dust cover from? Cheers
Awesome, where in NZ are you? I got mine from eBay but you can get them from amazon as well here amzn.to/3e5RdHg
Stephen Milner thanks mate. I’m in Hamilton and have just ordered a v800 off trade me. Don’t do any film stuff these days but have a load of 35mm slides & negs to digitise and work on
@@ny8851 Cool, I'm in Hamilton too. Good luck with you scanning.
Hello! can i use this scanner with my mackbook pro laptop? or it will go really slow? thanks
Ofir Berman Hi. My iMac is 6 years old and it works great. If it does slow your MacBook down you can upgrade its RAM very easily. RAM can be bought from Crucial and installed by yourself.
@@StephenMilner Great... i wasn't sure! thanks!
What further editing would you do in Photoshop? Does anyone just leave it at Silverfast?
Great tut, Thanks!
How do you get fingerprints off of film?
I wear cotton gloves when handling the film to avoid fingerprints on the film.
@@StephenMilner Thank you so much for replying. I asked because I have a large amount of 1940's to 1980's negatives from my mom and you can imagine what they are like as they are just stuffed in a box. I bought an Epson V600 to see if I can digitize them to share w/ family. But I want to preserve them as much as possible. I need one of those rocket dusters and cotton gloves. I wonder if Nitril gloves would work?
Excellent thanks.
I edit the scans in silverfast itself and then when i actually scan the images they look completely different, why is this? I dont have this problem with negative film
xesse1 I have not experienced this problem. Are you doing the edits and looking at the scans on the same computer monitor?
Thanks for getting back to me! Yep, all on the MacBook Air. I’ve sent you a message on Instagram, there’s a video on my story showing what’s going wrong, that might help explain it a bit more
Are you colour calibrating your screen?
By luck I had the chance to buy a drum scanner for relatively "cheap" end of last year because a artbook production company nearby sold it and I have to say, for sure it gives you the best results possible but its a lot of work and takes its time. So I manly print in the darkroom but when I just want ja quick scan the V850 is still the fastest way to go and as long you don't need really really high quality scans a drum scan is not worth the time. I use mine like 1-2 Times a month for my self, mostly I use it to scan other peoples work. Sure the quality is great but 80% of the time it just doesn't make any sense for me.
Edler Herren Club you are lucky to have one. I sometimes look for them on eBay and more locally. They don’t seem to come up for sale often. I have had great print results from my V800.
Thanks for watching.
get to the point!
Does the scanner use anr glass or open like my v600
ANR plastic