Re: Epson filmscan & grain

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Dear List

I thank members for their comments and suggestions on my problem as
originally posted, a copy of which is included below. Although there are
strategies for coping with the problem once the scan is complete e.g.
selecting and then blurring the sky within photoshop, what still puzzles me
is why the grain should show in a scan and not in a conventional
photographic print when both are to the same size. I have also tried a
different scanner to the Epson (The Leaf 45) and it does not show the grain
as badly.

Any suggestions why the Epson should do this.

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Has anyone got any experience of the Epson FS200 film Scanner. I have had
one for some time but have not seriously used it until recently. My problem
is one of it exaggerating, or at least markedly showing, the grain in the
film. Yes I do mean grain not pixelalation. I have made a comparison with
the results I get from this scanner and a conventional photographic based
print from the same neg to the same magnification. The scanned version
markedly shows granularity in plain areas such as skies.

Any suggestions!

Steve Dye
Yorkshire, UK.