Digital BW, The Print

At 7:20 PM +0000 3/29/06, joshscapes wrote:
>With the new epson v700 scanner out and reviews being very good 
>about it, do you as a
>knowledgable group think that flatbed scanners are going to be the 
>best choice in the
>future for scanning b&w negatives?  Conventional wisdom is that a 
>dedicated film scanner
>gives a better scan.  Is this wisdom changing?  I am excited about 
>the possibility of a
>flatbed doing a better job on b&w than a dedicated film scanner. 
>Your thoughts?

With the dual lens Epson flatbeds the comparison with dedicated film 
scanners like the Nikon 9000 gets more interesting. What it comes 
down to is the CCD chip and lens choices and whether the focusing 
distance required with flat beds places too great a compromise on the 
lens choice to approach the quality of the dedicated film scanners.

It would be interesting to get a spec list of the lens and CCD 
components used in scanners.

DaleH