Scanning Negatives - Umax 2400S

[Jim Fisher]

I recently picked up a Umax 2400S for a good price on eBay and am hoping to
use it to scan 35mm negatives to cut development costs. I have VueScan
version 8 for Mac OS X and I was wondering if there were any tutorials out
there that would help guide me in what settings I need to get the highest
quality images out of this scanner? Please let me know, as my first
attempts have come back with an unacceptable amount of pixilation on images
for my liking. I would like to get good quality images, about 1600 x 1200
pixel resolution out of my negatives.

Thanks in advance for any help on this!

-- Jim

 

[Mac McDougald]

I recently picked up a Umax 2400S for a good price on eBay and am hoping to
use it to scan 35mm negatives to cut development costs. I have VueScan
version 8 for Mac OS X and I was wondering if there were any tutorials out
there that would help guide me in what settings I need to get the highest
quality images out of this scanner? Please let me know, as my first
attempts have come back with an unacceptable amount of pixilation on images
for my liking. I would like to get good quality images, about 1600 x 1200
pixel resolution out of my negatives.

Thanks in advance for any help on this!

-- Jim

You may be expecting too much from a (I guess 2400ppi) flatbed.
Also, don't why you settled on 1600 x 1200? That's only 160ppi at 10 inch
long side print.
Scanning at 2400 will give you 3402x2268. Only prob is, the *actual*
resoution as far as detail retained will be quite a bit lower than 2400
from a film scanner.

At any rate, you need to scan 35mm film at highest optical ppi of your
device. If you need less than that for final use, downsample from that in
image editor.

Mac

 

[Mac McDougald]

You may be expecting too much from a (I guess 2400ppi) flatbed.
Also, don't why you settled on 1600 x 1200? That's only 160ppi at 10 inch
long side print.
Scanning at 2400 will give you 3402x2268. Only prob is, the *actual*
resoution as far as detail retained will be quite a bit lower than 2400
from a film scanner.

At any rate, you need to scan 35mm film at highest optical ppi of your
device. If you need less than that for final use, downsample from that in
image editor.

Mac

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Never mind all that.
I just looked up specs for that scanner.
Only 600ppi optical.
It's just not hi rez enough for scanning 35mm film.

M