At 8:28 PM -0500 3/15/11, Don Roberts wrote:
Good point, Emily. I suppose I will have to get up to speed on
whatever they get and do some instruction.
And right there is one of the hitches. They think it's going to be
more efficient, but they'll be depending on you for quite a while,
especially when the person they train gets another job and moves on.
My experience has been with an Agfa flatbed/film scanner and an
Epson 2450 as well as a Nikon Coolscan IV. I feel competent if not
expert with those. I have used the proprietary software as well as
Silverfast and Vuescan, my favorite.
Vuescan is highly regarded on the pro forums I read.
I've used the Nikon scanners and found their proprietary software
quite adequate, but that was many years ago. For flatbed stuff I use
my printer but I have nothing critical to scan at this point. If I
had to scan film I'd pay someone to do it unless I had the Nikon.
Personally, I don't have much confidence in flatbed scanners for
film, unless they're high end contact scanners. But that's maybe
just snobbery, certainly not from experience.
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