Digital BW, The Print

Just a suggestion this to see if I can be of any help: I have an Epson 4990. No, it's obviously not as good as some of the models being discussed here but does for me. If it would help anyone evaluate a new scanner, I would be quite happy to scan a known image and post it somewhere to this site. You would need to establish some sort of benchmark ie resolution, processing (filtering) or lack thereof etc. I don't have a glass mount.

We could compile an unofficial batch of scans of the same image done by people with different scanner models and then could see side by side the results vs price comparison.

-- 
  Alan Ansell
  aansell@...

----- Original message -----
From: "Sergei Antonov" <antonovsergei@...>
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:32:21 -0000
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Suggestions for Negative Scanner

I used Canon 9950 and returned it. Then I used Minolta Dimage Pro,
and it died recently and was bought back by Sony. I spent the pay
back to Epson V750. I was skeptical when I ordered it, but there are
few options for MF film scanner on the market. Today, several weeks
later I could tell that this machine is better than Canon. On scans
up to 1600 dpi it produces images about the same quality as Minolta.
You could modify OEM holders and live with it, no need to pay Doug
Fisher, and you could wet mount your film on the bottom of the glass
on Epson wet mount holder.
Besides of wet mount holder (in US) V750 package adds useful software
and IT8 target. In my opinion it does worth extra $200 even without
holder.
If you want to build home made holder and don't need SilverFast and
IT8 target, you could buy V700, it still will be better than 9950f,
and probably better than Epson 4990.
--Sergei
--- In [1]DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Peter De Smidt
<pdesmidt@...> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Peter. I also do scan color negs. Do you still recommend
on the
> > cheaper scanner? Does the glass carrier mounts on top of the
glass for
> > both color & black & white or only for the fluid mount?
> > Sincerely,
> > Pierre-Olivier
> You'd only use the homemade glass carrier for use with wet-
mounting.
> You could use it for both color and bw, although some films will
benefit
> more than others. All curly films will benefit, though, because
they'll
> be held very flat. You can try mounting negatives below the glass
with
> tape but no fluid, but you will probably get Newton's rings. You
can
> use anti-Newton glass (or what's cheaper Anti-glare picture framing
> glass). Both of these have a texture that minimizes the rings.
> Depending on your scanner, though, the texture might show up in
your scans.
>
> -Peter
>


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