russ_lowgren

I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on good scanners for LF

film. How well do flat bed scanners work for LF film? Having it done

in a drum scanner is very nice, but rather expensive. I'm looking

more for a home scanner to scan mainly for website use, but still at

good quality.

I am new to Large Format and am finding that a lot of the

transparencies I get back look better slightly cropped (and sometimes

more than slightly!). In 35mm this wasn't really an option for

enlarging the slides, but in LF the image size is so huge it doesn't

seem like a problem.

How often do you crop your images? Should I work more on my

composition with the view camera so I don't have to crop the images

later? Your feelings.....

I have an Arca-Swiss monorail camera and the original ground glass

broke (a very nice one with architectural grid). I replaced it with

the glass and frensal lens of an old crown graphic I had. This works,

but focusing is difficult to be precise. Any help on a good 4x5

ground glass and a place to purchase one would be greatly appreciated.