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2002-06-28 by bjornaagedk
I own a Flextight II but have the opportunity to buy a used ScanMate 5000 for $3000 including Colot Quartet software. What would you prefer : A flextight precision II CCD scanner or a used ScanMate 5000 Drum scanner. Anyone at the list who has some experiences with drum- vs. CCD scannings for scanning B&W negs for quad printing (piezo pro24/Epson7000)? BJ
2002-06-28 by Shire,Stanley
BJ We had used a ScanMate (albeit not a 5000) for many years. I am not a big fan of Color Quartet. We just took delivery of an Imacon 848. I have also used the Precision II for grayscale scans. Both the PII and the 848 do beautiful, sharp scans of grayscale negs. BTW I have been using Russel Brown's Hue/Sat technique for grayscale conversions from RGB images and it's wonderful. www.russelbrown.com <http://www.russelbrown.com/> No question. Stick with the Imacon. The routine of drum cleaning, affixing negs or chromes to the drum, etc. gets old very quickly. IMO (please . lets not start a thread on this) the Imacon scans are every bit as good as the drum. Shadows are clean and I'm sticking with my story. Stan Shire Associate Professor/Department Chair Photographic Imaging Community College of Philadelphia Adobe Photoshop 6 A.C.E. 215 751-8320 <mailto:sshire@...> sshire@...
-----Original Message----- From: bjornaagedk [mailto:bs@...] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:45 AM To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Digital BW] scanning b&w (slightly off-topic) I own a Flextight II but have the opportunity to buy a used ScanMate 5000 for $3000 including Colot Quartet software. What would you prefer : A flextight precision II CCD scanner or a used ScanMate 5000 Drum scanner. Anyone at the list who has some experiences with drum- vs. CCD scannings for scanning B&W negs for quad printing (piezo pro24/Epson7000)? BJ Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, Bookmarks, Polls and other resources as they are often being updated. The page is at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint Please follow these basic guidelines: - Include your full name with your message. - Include the address of your website, if you have one. - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep them short. - As the topic of a thread changes remember to change the subject header. - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or "flames." - Complete your Yahoo profile. - Before posting a question, search the message archives and the various resources on the homepage. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]