Thanks Winsor! So I'm probably a bit out of touch with things but had
always thought that flatbeds weren't quite competitive with dedicated
film scanners for ultimate image quality. The 'interactive review' of
the Epson 4990 looks very good though. I'm quite tempted by one of
those, particularly if I can scan at least 8 slides at once.
Roger
Winsor Crosby wrote:
> Welcome back, Roger.
>
> It seems to me that a decent 4000 dpi scanner gets pretty much
> everything off a piece of film. Flat bed scanners are doing better
> than that now with the added advantage of doing different sizes of
> film as well as not having to deal with the accumulation of dust
> inside a little closed box.
>
> This site has some reviews and he usually compares the result to a
> Nikon film scanner.
>
> http://photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/scanners_page.htm
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, CA
> USA
>
>
> On Aug 26, 2007, at 6:29 AM, Roger Wesson wrote:
>
>> So, still being a film fan, I need a good film scanner. I just
>> bought a
>> new computer with Windows Vista, which seems to have made my old Acer
>> Scanwit obsolete as there are no drivers available for the SCSI
>> card. So
>> I think it's time to upgrade, and I wonder if anyone has had any
>> experience with the Plustek 7200i scanner? I've read some pretty
>> reasonable reviews, and for £140 off amazon for 7200dpi resolution it
>> seems pretty extraordinary.
>
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