Drum Scans

Can a Fine-Art Large-Format Photographer
Find Happiness With a $30,000 Scanner?
By Bill Glickman

Drum Scanners Vs. CCD Scanners Is It Worth it?
"To drum scan, or not to drum scan", is the question I hear often from photographers.   I made my decision to buy a drum scanner and have now been using it for almost a year.   With this article I will share some of my experiences.   This is being written from a photographer's point of view, rather than that of a service bureau operator, and is mainly concerned with scanning film, not reflective materials.   And, although drum scanners can scan negative film, it seems that there are problems with color casts.   I am told though that with ICC profiling systems in the hands of a knowledgeable person this can supposedly accommodated.   However, this article is based on my personal experience with scanning color transparency material, not negative film.
Although flatbed CCD scanners have come a long way in the past few years, in head-to-head comp...