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DrPablo wrote in post #6131899
I just bought a used Howtek 4500 drum scanner for $2000. I'll get it up and running within a few days.

Be interested in that

DocFrankenstein wrote in post #6131300


I agree with everything you say except the above part.

Well, I thought I would give it a shot...can't win them all...

DrPablo wrote in post #6131899
I just bought a used Howtek 4500 drum scanner for $2000. I'll get it up and running within a few days.

Certainly a good price, but if it had mirrored my budget when I purchased the scanner, I would be using the Nikon Coolscan 9000 instead of the V ED. Nevertheless, worth considering the refurb/used route in the future.

Bottom line, if I had the time, talent, and space (actually, I have the time), I would be producing prints in the darkroom, or at least playing around in there. Despite all of the chemicals, there's just something more organic about it; at least in my romanticized preconceptions of the whole process (which I realize can also be a complete pain in the…).

Still, I am already feeling apprehensive about using the inkjet's 'color' to produce a toned print, such as sepia, palladium, or the above-mentioned cyanotype. I would rather be able to mix up some noxious solution and pour it on my paper to warm it up as desired. Might seem nonsensical, but that's where I am headed…

sjones wrote in post #6136190
Certainly a good price, but if it had mirrored my budget when I purchased the scanner, I would be using the Nikon Coolscan 9000

I was very near doing that, but I shoot a lot of 4x5 and 8x10 sheet film, and so I wanted a high end scanner that could take those. I also now shoot 6x12 on a Noblex, and I've heard that the 9000 has trouble with 6x12 and 6x17.

I've done a lot of cyanotyping, vandyke brown printing, and toned lith printing, and there is a lot more to the end product than the color. The texture of the paper, the refractive properties of the crystals, the ability to duotone (like with tea-toned cyanotypes) and other properties like the tonal range and archivability are things that an inkjet can't imitate.

But for color printing, from E6 and C41 films I'm ok with doing it digitally.