I have had good experiences with the Epson 2450 with
the transparency adapter but it is probably not nearly state of
the art anymore. I have done medium format and up to and
including 5x7 on that. Of course, with historical work most of it
is BW which does help some. I know color scanning is quite a
different animal. The Coolscan works fine for 35mm.
Don
On 3/15/11 9:25 PM, Emily L. Ferguson wrote:
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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