{"id":130753,"date":"2022-04-16T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=130753"},"modified":"2022-04-16T16:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T15:49:18","slug":"jon-bentley-where-have-all-the-good-film-scanners-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/opinion\/jon-bentley-where-have-all-the-good-film-scanners-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Bentley: Where have all the good film scanners gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s great to see traditional analogue photography in such rude health. However, there is a weak link. If it\u2019s to continue thriving <strong>we need better film scanners<\/strong>. Most gadgetry gets better, cheaper and easier to use, but scanner technology seems to be in reverse.<\/p>\n<p>I bought my <a href=\"https:\/\/imaging.nikon.com\/lineup\/scanner\/scoolscan_4000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nikon Coolscan 4000 ED<\/strong><\/a> back in 2001. I was writing motoring articles and taking pictures to illustrate them and while magazines still wanted transparencies, even then, newspapers were beginning to demand digital shots. The Coolscan allowed me to satisfy both requirements whilst also providing a backup of slides which might be lost.<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_130757&quot;  class=\"c-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 440px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130757\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Jon-Bentley-Coolscan-car.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Bentley Coolscan car\" width=\"420\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/08\/Jon-Bentley-Coolscan-car.jpg 420w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/08\/Jon-Bentley-Coolscan-car.jpg?resize=300,450 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/08\/Jon-Bentley-Coolscan-car.jpg?resize=267,400 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Credit: Jon Bentley<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>Though not cheap at just over a grand, I was thrilled by the quality, detail, colour reproduction and dynamic range of the 23MP scans produced by it. It did justice to any emulsion, whether Kodachrome, Fuji Velvia, Ilford HP5 or plain old supermarket print film, while the dust-removal capabilities of its Digital ICE (Image Correction &amp; Enhancement) software were magical. Scanning wasn\u2019t quick but film processors would happily supply a lo-res scan of all your shots at modest cost from which you could select a few frames per film to do yourself.<\/p>\n<h2>What might replace it?<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019m still using the Coolscan and it\u2019s as good as ever. It requires a bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KNMtTH8HlQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">driver jiggery-pokery<\/a> to work with modern operating systems, and the FireWire cable means you have to consider your computer\u2019s connectivity carefully, but <strong>I\u2019m dreading the day it gives up<\/strong>. Because there\u2019s nothing around to replace it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flatbed Epson scanners are all very well but they don\u2019t quite deliver the sharpness<\/strong>, in my experience. I know a couple of photographers with Plustek scanners but the colour reproduction doesn\u2019t compare, and they tell me there\u2019s quite a bit of trial and error involved. There are also oodles of bargain basement models available but they\u2019re probably best considered toys rather than serious tools. As for the quality of scans produced by minilabs they\u2019re really too hit-and-miss, and you can\u2019t rely on them as your only scanning source.<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Transitions Cultural Heritage kit, which effectively takes photos of film using a PhaseOne digital back, is excellent but the huge price takes it beyond the reach of all but libraries and archives.<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_164258&quot;  class=\"c-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1270px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"164258\" src=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/nikon-coolscan-9000ed-whitebg-press-image.jpg\" alt=\"Nikon Coolscan 9000ED White BG, Press Image\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Nikon Coolscan 9000ED, the Nikon Coolscan 9000 ED was the top of the range medium format film scanner, and is now much sought after.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>Nikon, which stopped making scanners in 2010, knows there\u2019s an issue here and does market an attachment you can use with a macro lens to take photos of your film. But it\u2019s uncomfortably reminiscent of those rickety, old, extension tube-based, slide-copying devices and, while the results aren\u2019t quite as unpredictable, they are not as good as Nikon\u2019s old scanners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I want to be enthralled at the enchanting way in which film records the world<\/strong>, not depressed by the drab simulacrum most reasonably priced scanners insult our eyes with in 2022. If we could create high-quality scanners 20 years ago why is it so difficult now? Can it really be impossible to market one that\u2019s even better, even easier to use, and even more affordable than my vintage Coolscan?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-131519 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Jon-Bentley-135x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"100\" \/>Jon Bentley is a TV producer and presenter best known for <em>Top Gear<\/em> and Channel 5\u2019s <em>The Gadget Show<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this column are not necessarily those of Amateur Photographer magazine or Kelsey Media Limited.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Modern versions of the &#8220;film scanner&#8221; include the <a href=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/review\/accessory_reviews\/lomography-smartphone-film-scanner-review-39806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lomography smartphone film scanner<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/lomography-launches-digitaliza-film-scanning-kits-162128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lomography Digitaliza film scanning kit<\/a>. Let us know! What do you use to scan film? email <a href=\"mailto:ap.ed@kelsey.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ap.ed@kelsey.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Bentley wants to know where all the good film scanners have gone? Why aren&#8217;t Nikon making Coolscan scanners anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":164258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,39,466],"tags":[1818,1645,2848,2384,2553],"product-category":[],"class_list":["post-130753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-photo-news","category-opinion","tag-digital","tag-film","tag-jon-bentley","tag-opinion","tag-scanning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jon Bentley: Where have all the good film scanners gone? - Amateur Photographer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jon Bentley wants to know where all the good film scanners have gone? 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