If you can find a Fuji Frontier technition that knows anything about their own machines, I would say go there.
What I have been doing is getting all my film scanned to CDs at my Fuji Frontier lab in my grocery store. If they can figure out how to work the machine, then you can get 3637x2432 scan that looks great for cheap. At my lab, the cost is $6.99 per 40 scans.
Of course, this hasn't always worked out peaches and cream for me. I tell them to burn them at 8x12 (all their scans are designed to fit print sizes, all at 300ppi) but half the time they have scanned at 4x6. A 4x6 gives me only about 25% of the pixels as an 8x12. So far they have been willing to rescan them, but I'm not sure how many more times they are going to do this for me.
If you want a sample of a Fuji Frontier scan, I have one posted at photoshare. http://www.DansPhotos.FujiFrontierLabFilmScan.photoshare.co.nz , also at that URL is one where I used Neat Image on the scan. The funniest part about the shot is that all that sharpness came out of a lens I only paid $12 for on eBay. Lol.
Oh yeah, that photo was taken on Fuji Superia Xtra 400ISO film. I'm thinking about switching. The main reason being that alot of my scans came out noiser than I would like, mostly due to bad metering. The camera I was using at the time was a Minolta SRT 101, and it was really hard to meter correctly, especially with battery check being on the same switch as the ON and OFF. Oh well, that camera is gone, I now own a Minolta XG-M.
Where you guys scan the picture ?
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If you can find a Fuji Frontier technition that knows anything about their own machines, I would say go there.
What I have been doing is getting all my film scanned to CDs at my Fuji Frontier lab in my grocery store. If they can figure out how to work the machine, then you can get 3637x2432 scan that looks great for cheap. At my lab, the cost is $6.99 per 40 scans.
Of course, this hasn't always worked out peaches and cream for me. I tell them to burn them at 8x12 (all their scans are designed to fit print sizes, all at 300ppi) but half the time they have scanned at 4x6. A 4x6 gives me only about 25% of the pixels as an 8x12. So far they have been willing to rescan them, but I'm not sure how many more times they are going to do this for me.
If you want a sample of a Fuji Frontier scan, I have one posted at photoshare. http://www.DansPhotos.FujiFrontierLabFilmScan.photoshare.co.nz , also at that URL is one where I used Neat Image on the scan. The funniest part about the shot is that all that sharpness came out of a lens I only paid $12 for on eBay. Lol.
Oh yeah, that photo was taken on Fuji Superia Xtra 400ISO film. I'm thinking about switching. The main reason being that alot of my scans came out noiser than I would like, mostly due to bad metering. The camera I was using at the time was a Minolta SRT 101, and it was really hard to meter correctly, especially with battery check being on the same switch as the ON and OFF. Oh well, that camera is gone, I now own a Minolta XG-M.