Digital BW, The Print

I use an Agfa Duoscan 1200... you can get one used on Ebay for around $300 bucks.  Same deal, it has a transparency module built in for scanning negs.

- Jennifer
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Austin Franklin 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:25 PM
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Making b&w contact sheets on a flatbed scanner


  Hi David,

  > I am gathering that the main problem is that negatives need light
  > coming through them, and that the tabloid-sized scanner you both use has a
  > light source in the transparency attachment that allows you to scan
  > negatives?

  Yes.

  > And that you use the tabloid scanner because it is
  > large enough
  > to fit the PrintFile pages underneath the light source?

  and...yes.

  > This scanner appears to be an older model (at least, review articles about
  > it I found on the web were not recent). Is there a newer replacement model
  > out?

  Do you mean for the 836XL?  The 836XL can be bought used for
  peanuts...considering it is a tabloid scanner, and sold for near $2k when
  new.  I do believe there is a new replacement unit for it, but it's higher
  resolution, which I don't think you need for contact sheets...and obviously,
  it's going to be a lot more money.

  Someone mentioned that they did find a non-tabloid scanner that had a large
  enough transparency area for "some" of the PrintFile sheets.  I do not
  recall which scanner it was though.

  Regards,

  Austin


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