Digital BW, The Print

I was just scanning some Fuji Velvia 120 slides.  They charge GBP35 plus VAT
(17.75%) an hour for the Imacon station ­ although today they charged me
just GBP 25 per hour as an intro rate ­ not cheap but beats a lab which
would have charged me around GBP40-50 per scan.  The scanner is amazingly
fast ­ 100mb a minute ­ but rather frustratingly they would not let me
connect my laptop to take down the files once finished.  I spent another
hour burning CDs!  This was the first time I had used this scanner and I was
not very organised.  I still did 8 scans in the hour at max ppi ­ 4000 for
120, 6800 for 35mm.  As an indication of quality, when I scanned these same
images with my 2450 I had to do a very significant amount of ³Creative
Sharpening² in Photokit Sharpening Pro.  With the Imacon scans I did no
creative sharpening at all (just Capture and Print, as with the 2450).  At
A3 the Imacon scan prints are very visibly sharper.

Cheers

Steve


From: "sceptre12345" <am1000@...>
Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 20:08:42 -0000
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] MF Scanners -- off topic

Steve,

Were you scanning color neg/slides or b&w negs ?
And just curious, how much did it cost you per hour for the Imacon ?
Not that I'll want to jump on the next plane to London as no such
service is available locally.
Cheers,
Andre


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