Digital BW, The Print

Richard,

I actually had the 1200S (SCSI connection) before I started scanning  
negatives. It was a great little scanner!

AnnMarie


AnnMarie Tornabene
www.annmarietornabene.net


On Jan 3, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Richard Sintchak wrote:

> Interesting discussion here of the 4990 and it's "true" resolution:
>
> http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00EL2j
>
> One person even claims it's true max resolution is 1200 dpi! But even
> if it is higher it seems the contrast drops so much by 4800 it starts
> to really affect the end result. Could be why I find the 2400 a good
> compromise I guess.
>
> Seems Epson has always sort of exaggerated it's resolution numbers.
> But having used an Epson 1200U as my first transparency scanner, then
> the 2450 and now the 4990 I will say I'm fairly pleased nonetheless,
> at least for medium format scans.
>
> Loads of other discussion under a Google search of "Epson 4990 true  
> resolution"
>
> Richard S.
> San Francisco
>
> My Commute Photo Blog
> http://shootingonthefly.blogspot.com/
>
> My Flickr Page
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/rich8155/
>


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