Let me simplify this by stating, as I should have
earlier, that I know their needs and resources since I have been
doing this for them for a few years. So let's eliminate methods
and motives etc. I just want advice on the current crop of
scanners to know if something would be advisable other than what I
use. I appreciate all the well meaning advice but it isn't what I
need. Machinery! That is what I could use advise on. It is very
early morning here and I haven't had my coffee yet so I hope I
don't sound peevish because I do know you are all being helpful.
Don
On 3/16/11 3:45 AM, Pablo Coronel wrote:
I guess it depends which formats do they want to scan.
For 35mm the Nikons are hard to beat, specially if you can get the
transparency feeder to scan slides in batch mode.
For larger formats the Epsons maybe a good alternative
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Karl
Shah-Jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: Don Roberts
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals -
Students
Cc: Emily L. Ferguson
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: Film scanners?
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
I'd always ask what the intent of the scans were..
If it is for archiving purposes, I'd recommend film over
digital any day of the week. If it'f for mass access, say
from a data storage facility then digital is the way to go, as
anyone can access the images anywhere.
Now it comes down to, what (again) are the images for? If
it's for print purposes, then you'd determine the maximum size
you'd be willing to provide and scan to that res for storage..
if it's merely for viewing purposes then I'd be guessing
1080x1024 pixels is arguably the biggest image anyone would
need.
At which point you can safely tuck the scanners away and fall
back to the digital camera, batch outputting the images
through viewscan and neatimage and you'll have hacked about
75% off the time needed to perform the task.
k
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