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Re: [Digital BW] Flatbed scanners with film adaptors - good, bad,or ugly?

2002-07-09 by Jerry Olson

I have a Canon Film scanner, and the images come in much sharper than
any epson scan I've ever seen. But of course thats not really a fair
comparison, as epson doesnt make film scanners.

Jerry

Still waiting for my beloved canon D60.




Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
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> > I'd suggest the Epson scans are much like your beloved D30. Very smooth, but
> > not incredibly sharp. However, they can take a fair bit of sharpening.
> 
> That's a good analogy, I agree. The unsharp qualities approximates a
> Gaussian blur to a great degree so unsharp mask operations are quite
> effective when used carefully.
> 
> Godfrey
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