Digital BW, The Print

Alessandro

An impressive result.  I am getting some great scans from the 3200 now, especially since I swapped to Silverfast Ai and calibrated the scanner with the reflective and transparent targets.  Even the Delta 100 black and white scans are much better.  To the untrained and non-critical eye they are not that different from the Flextight Photo at normal viewing distance.

Can you provide some step by step instructions for how you are mounting the images you scanned.  Are you using fluid direclty on the platten or have you fabricated a glass carrier?

Thanks for working to show how scans can be improved.

Simon
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Alessandro Pardi 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:05 AM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Epson3200 - Test results


  Sorry if this is a bit OT, but I thought some may be interested in the
  performance of this new scanner.
  Tests I made are not comparison with other scanners (you can find plenty of
  them on the web), but simply how to get the best out of it. As you can see
  in the following image:

  http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1341299&size=lg

  I found that the Kami fluid SXL 2001 is well worth the trouble of both
  finding it and using it (it's a bit messy, although less than I feared).
  Technical details in the photo.net page should fully explain the test, but
  feel free to ask for further information.

  The following is the first "real" scan (not including tests, I mean) I made
  with the Epson:

  http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1339580&size=lg

  all other photographs in my photo.net folders are 35mm scanned with a Canon
  FS 4000.




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