848

Finally, the Imacon 848 scanner has arrived. I bought it 6 months ago, from a service lab in Nantes, France. But it took me until last weekend to free up the 2 days necessary to go down to France and pick it up. It's quite a drive. However, the 848 is now safely standing on my desk, looking like one of these stately, slightly menacing monoliths on Easter Island. And it works. Did a few test scans of 24x36 and 6x6 negatives and the results are encouraging. Above is a section from a negative shown on the blog just a few postings ago. Left is a scan with the V700, right is the Imacon scan. The difference is quite obvious. It gives me reason to believe that this has been a good investment in supporting film-based photographic work.