Re: Epson filmscan & grain

[Glenn Barry <bonza1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I just bought a flatbed scanner, and had problems with noise which was 
caused by a power cable being too close to the SCSI cable. Now it is 
noise free because I have made sure that the SCSI cable is as far as 
possible from anything carring current and therefore generating magnetic 
fields.

Just a thought

Glenn

list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> ---- Original Message follows ----
> 
> 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.