Thinking about buying darkroom equipment

[Gary A.]

It works well ... maybe a bit clunky and not all that intuitive. I'm no expert, but I heard with scanners it is all about the software.

 

[webestang64]

Well honestly, at some point I am probably going to have a darkroom and a scanner. But right now it seems like a better idea to invest the money into a darkroom, although I wouldn't mind seeing some of pictures before I decide if they are worth printing or not, as it is quite time consuming.

How is the software for those scanners? I heard the Plustek 8200 is a really good scanner, but its software is a mess. Is that true?

Get Vuescan software. link ...... VueScan Scanner Software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
Although a wet print, in my opinion and 35 years doing this professionally, done properly is far superior to scanning and ink jet. A wet print will show you the full potential of a neg vs a scan/print.

 

[Oculus]

Get Vuescan software. link ...... VueScan Scanner Software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
Although a wet print, in my opinion and 35 years doing this professionally, done properly is far superior to scanning and ink jet. A wet print will show you the full potential of a neg vs a scan/print.

Thanks for the link! And I agree with what you said about the wet print. I got a few rolls of film developed at a pretty good place, and I asked them to print a few pictures (they scanned them and then printed them on nice paper). Even though the pictures look pretty good, the one wet print I did looks absolutely stunning and blows the store's prints out of the water.