noisy negative scans

[antitrust]

hi all,

i've just gotten my 16Base negative scans from a minilab recently and the scans did not turn out as i would've wanted them to be.

they seem extremely noisy. i'm not too sure if the problem lies with the fujifilm sp-2000 scanner, a fuji frontier 350, or its with my cheap consumer grade film, Fuji Superia X-tra 400.

below is a 100% crop of the 16Base scan with no post processing whatsoever done on my side.

i highly suspect the noise came from the scanner as i do not think that a film would be that noisy right? it should only be grainy?

please enlighten!

 

[raptor84]

Lab scanners are noramlly only good for up to 8R prints. The optics problably have some trouble handling the film as such a high res. You need to go to a lab that uses a drum scanner to get the most out of film

 

[sriram]

I really don't know what they do, but they can definitely get better quality. They usually have JPEG sharpening turned up quite high. I've never been happy with lab scans, so I used to get low res for web use only.

Superia 400 is quite a good film with fine grain. I've used it quite a lot and it scans much better than this.

When I used to do my own scans with a (cheap) minolta scan dual-2, they were much cleaner than this. NPH was almost grain free.

 

[Isaiahfortythirtyone]

which labs use a drum scanner then?

 

[antitrust]

thanks for the reply.

will try sending my negs to kex for scanning again with his imacon scanner. thanks!