Photography I / The Darkroom, Digital and Hybrid Workflows
Practice question · Match the pairs

Match each scanning route to what characterises it.

  • Drum scanner
  • Dedicated film scanner
  • Flatbed with a transparency unit
  • Camera scanning on a copy stand
  • A digital camera and macro lens photographing the negative on a light panel
  • Photomultiplier tubes, the longest density range, wet mounting
  • Any format up to the platen size, at lower effective resolution
  • A fixed carrier and optics designed for one format only
Hints
  1. One route uses no scanner at all.
  2. One is limited to a single film format and optimised for it.
Show the answer
  • Drum scanner Photomultiplier tubes, the longest density range, wet mounting
  • Dedicated film scanner A fixed carrier and optics designed for one format only
  • Flatbed with a transparency unit Any format up to the platen size, at lower effective resolution
  • Camera scanning on a copy stand A digital camera and macro lens photographing the negative on a light panel
Why

Camera scanning is the newest and now the most common: a modern sensor out-resolves most consumer film scanners, and the whole frame is captured in one exposure rather than swept line by line. Its weakness is flatness of the film and evenness of the light, which is exactly what a scanner's carrier was for.

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