on 08-11-2004 12:40, Andrew L Wendelborn at andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> At 8:26 PM -0800 2004.11.07, John Gettis wrote:
>> Does anyone have a Epson 4180 flatbed scanner I am considering buying one
>> to replace a old canon one. I am sure that it will can photos as well or
>> better than it but am interested in how it works on film. I have a Canon
>> 2710 for 35mm but want something to scan some Medium format negs that I
>> have and wonder how well it does.
>> on those.
>
> FWIW I've had an Epson 4870 for a few months now and very happy with it.
> Used so far with 135, 6x6, and 5x4 formats (so far only BW for the latter
> two).
>
> I looked hard at Canon 9900F at the time, but decided against it after
> reading reports of inferior performance, poor software, and (most
> importantly) a bad attitude to software support. See
>
> http://www.gnyman.com/Personal/Epson3200vsEpson4870vsCanon9900F.htm
>
> Of course that may all have changed with the latest versions, but I would
> check carefully first if I was buying.
>
> regards
> Andrew
Indeed software is important,
if possible, get silverfast scansoftware with your scanner, all the scans on
http://zuiko.fotopic.net/ were made with my 2450 photo... and silverfast Ai
Iwert.
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