I spoke to a drum scanner operator yesterday about getting some 4x5 B+W negs scanned. He told me that there were problems with contrast when scanning B+W negs and for that reason they scan all Neg film on a kodak dedicated neg scanner which can only handle roll films. They only use their drum scanner for transparencies.
They use an ICG 370.
My question: Is the problem inherent with drum scanners or is it that the software they use on the drum scanner is tailored towards transparencies. I presume they are using the ICG software. I also presume the kodak machine is tailored to negs which they tell me gives them much better results with negs.
Any thoughts on this? Anyone have experience with ICG and how good its software is for scanning negs?
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