I am not having much success having 35mm film scanned so that I can work on the images in PS. I have had a couple of batches scanned in 2 different labs with pretty poor results. The images are very noisey and unsharp. I have had transparencies and colour neg film scanned with about the same poor quality, the neg scans being slightly worse. Frankly, I get better images from the 640x480 VGA images my digital camcorder produces. The transparencies are mainly pro 35mm film and I have printed them conventionally with beautifully sharp, clear results. They will project onto a 1.5 metre screen and look awesome. When scanned however, they look terrible. Additionally, the negs I had scanned came back with the images in both high resolution TIFF format [what I requested] and lower res JPEG files. Although the TIFFs are 18meg and the JPEGs are 3meg each, at 1600x magnification in PS the images are identical pixel for pixel. What am I doing wrong? What I am seeing on the screen is being faithfully reproduced on my printer, so I need the fix this at the source of the problem before I can get anywhere. Is this as good as it gets or do I need to use another format or technique? Perhaps it's just rubbish work from the lab??
