What flatbed scanner do you recommend for wet plate collidion tintypes?

[Joseph Kayne]

What flatbed scanner to you recommend for wet plate collidion tintypes?

[Doug Fisher]

There is most likely no appreciable advantage to pay additional for a flatbed with film scanning capabilities if you plan to ONLY scan tintypes and don't have other films to scan. A decent quality common flatbed scanner will most likely serve your needs just fine.

Doug

[paulbarden]

The Epson V750 does a fine job, and it serves many other use case scenarios as well.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4281/34419795173_b778d6b334_b.jpg

[chassis]

The Epson V750 does a fine job, and it serves many other use case scenarios as well.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4281/34419795173_b778d6b334_b.jpg

Paul, that's great.

[sheel]

Epson v800

https://flic.kr/p/Pu6qEy

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[Jim Andrada]

Digicam on copy stand???

[Joseph Kayne]

The main use for the scanner would be to make large prints from 4x5 and 8x10 tintypes. Is the Epson 850 good enough for that? Thanks. Joe.

[Jim Andrada]

How large is large? I've had a 750 for years and it was OK for 16 x 20's from MF or 4 x 5 so the 800 should be OK as well. It was also OK for scanning prints when the negative had gone missing. I upgraded to an IQsmart 2 and it's better than OK for all of the above but bigger and heavier and more expensive. But the quality of the scans is much better - question is whether the degree of betterness is worth the trouble and expense.

850 vs 800 is about the same as 750 vs 700 - if you don't wet mount (ie negatives/transparencies) there isn't much advantage to the x50 vs the x00.

[Matt Magruder]

Literally any Epson scanner will give more than good-enough results for scanning positive wet plate collodion plates. I've been using a rather old 4870 for years and have made pretty big enlargements from 8x10 tintypes.