Anyway,

I have again tried my had with processing negatives myself at home.
Easy work. Interest is BW only right now.

But I wanted to avoid actually setting up a darkroom with enlarger.
I can take a tiff down to WalMart and have a photo 20 by 30 printed for 15 bucks.

Been experimenting with a Holga and 120.

So the question is,

Does anyone have any experience with negative scanners here?
If so, what are your experiences?

I have been looking at, and even bidding, on enlargers on eBay.
With what I have spent trying to jury rig a TMA for my HP scanner, I could have bought one already.
My experimental DIY TMA stuff has been so hit or miss, I am tired of running this route.

check out some of the epson flatbed scanners. i was using a 1240 which i think i got for $100-150 for scanning my 4x5 negs. images that were getting published and eds wern't asking for different scans so the quality is pretty good.

Thanks for the reply.

The model that you mention has been discontinued.
I suppose I could buy used on eBay. Na.

And the replacement models are much more expensive. And getting info on them about whether they can scan the negs I intend to take is just not forthcoming about them.

They are more expensive that just setting up a darkroom with good used equipment.
Which I am doing.

Worst comes to worst, I could always just scan my prints.

the only thing that sucks about scanning prints is the hours of cleaning dust specks. even worse than flatbed neg scans.

1x.com would be a good board for you to sign up at and peruse the forums. Lot of guys there scan their negatives and are big equipment junkies in that regard.

I'd look at the epson V500, I'm happy with my V700, but you don't need the extra size for 6x6/6x4.5

I got the darkroom finally set up.

Which was probably in the cards from the
beginning.

I'm getting good results too.

It's just that my Holga does not have any vignetting.
Which is fine and all. It out focuses at the edges.
They look ok on 8x10s. They just don't look like stereotypical Holga
pics. Fine by me.

Anyway, it's kinda cool
going ol skool.

It feels more like ink and water color this
way. Which is a format I use to play with and loved working in.

Don't have anything worthy of posting yet. Still trying to get Zone System down.