Hi
after a longer search, I have these two buying options, based on my current budget and availability of products where I live.
But I'm not sure which one would be better for my needs. And here they are:
-I need it for scanning 120 film (and some 35mm)
-mostly reversal film, which means there will be a lot of battling with shadow noise, but color negatives also.
-I'd like usable sharpness (at least decent 1600dpi resolution)
-I don't like contrasty scans with crushed blacks, so the one that has better dynamic range would be preferable
Now I am aware that both of them will probably perform similar, but
they cost the same here, so every little detail of advantage would be the thing that leans s by choice into either direction
Things that I don't care about is, color profiling,because I want to have total control, so I usually scan everything as flat as possible (usually using film base as reference) even for negatives (I usually remove the mask myself and adjust the contrast, because I don't trust cheap software)
So, I don't care how good the color turns out by default, or what kind of profiles it has.
I also don't care about speed, because I'll probably scan one picture at a time.
I spend hours on one roll of film anyway adjusting every picture to my needs.
So if either of these has just a little less shadow noise but is slower 3 times, I'd take that one.
Same goes for sharpness.
Right now i have a Canon 4200F, which has terrible resolution, and I don't expect much more from either of these two (getting to scan 120 is improvement enough at this point) , but if I could get just a little improvement It would be great.
I hope 8800F is not the same thing as 4200F only with larger scanning area covered.
Now I've searched this forum, and I saw a comparison of 8600F and G4050, but quite frankly, I don't know what to make of these two crops.
I think someones experience would be much valued.
thank you