Hi Moose,
Yes I finally decided after all that research... thanks for your help
via email. :)
So far I like it. I was disappointed in the sharpness at first while
scanning negatives though I was aware of this drawback after reading
the reviews. The photoshop unsharp mask settings helped a great deal
in this.
The Epson software was easier to use than expected and produced the
results you see. For now I ran in professional mode, let the software
do auto color correction and turned the software's unsharp mask feature
off. The histograms were automatically adjusted and I had to make only
small corrections in color balance after the scan. I found the color
balance usually looked quite good unless the negative was improperly
exposed. I haven't toyed too much with photo scans yet.
One feature I didn't like with software installation was that you
weren't given a choice as to where to install it... the default was
drice c. Unfortunately for me, my drive c was approaching full. It
was originally partitioned with 2, 1 gig partitions, one windows and
one Linux (used for Linux backup). So I had to repartition to combine
the 2 partitions, reformat, and reinstall Win98. What a pain... I
forgot how many times rebooting was necessary during a new
installation.
Thanks for the compliments on the photos. :) The dandelion was taken
using the Vivitar Series 1 90-180/4.5 macro/flat field zoom.
--- Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So you decided on a 3170! What do you think of it so far? I'm still
> considering it for all the old family MF pictures, but am still on
> the
> fence.
>
> Certainly these images look fine scanned on it. I like the first a
> great
> deal, the second is nice, but doesn't grab me quite like the first.
> The
> dandelion in fine, although it could use a little more DOF to make
> the
> halo around the edge sharper, but that's just one opinion.
>
> Was #24, the dandelion, really taken with the 85-250/5? I thought
> the
> closest it could go is about 6x9 in. Or is that a REALLY big
> dandelion? :-)
>
> Moose
>
> Richard Lovison wrote:
>
> >I finally purchased a scanner, an Epson 3170..................
> >
> >
>
>
>
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