Some of these photographs have not been seen in at least 30 – 40 years and as far as I’m concerned your family history is something that should be preserved regardless of the cost. There are hundreds, possibly a thousand or so frames of 120 film in that bag, along with at least 110 35mm slides. I have recently been given a shopping bag stuffed to overflowing with medium format negatives that my Grandad had produced over his lifetime. There was actually a far more compelling reason to upgrade my scanner. Why upgrade at all? Expensive, massive, useful. It was time to browse Amazon and buy a new film scanner. I don’t mind taking things apart, but when a device is the only one you have, with no backup, I’m reticent to start waving a screwdriver in case I break it and end up without the tools I need. Designed for Windows 7, the software is really showing its age these days and it refuses to work at all on Windows 10 without some significant cajoling which gets in the way of your workflow.įurther to this, it doesn’t allow the scanning of medium format and worryingly it has developed a haze under the glass that I cannot clean off without dismantling the whole thing. I invested in a Canon Canoscan 4400f in 2007 at the very beginnings of my ventures into film photography and it has lasted very, very well albeit with a few annoying limitations. Every now and again, however, there comes a point where you either have no choice, or should admit defeat in the pursuit of a bargain and just spend a decent chunk of cash if you really do want high quality results. There’s something I like about the challenge of finding the absolute best kit you can find for basically next to nothing and this approach has been good for some time. I’ve long been the advocate of operating on a budget when it comes to film photography.
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