I think a better comparison would be the Aztek against a dedicated film scanner, not a flat bed. It is clear to me there is a focus issue with the Epson.
R. Jackson wrote: > I thought some of you might enjoy seeing this. I went down to > Petaluma today and Lenny Eiger introduced me to scanning with a drum > scanner. > > http://www.eigerphoto.com/ > > I essentially got a crash course in the practicalities of drum scans > from someone with a lot of practical experience in making them. I've > been all ripped-up this week about my cat having liver failure (I > buried her last night) and I'd mis-read Lenny's email about bringing > something *not* too challenging for a first scan. I glanced through > some boxes of 30-year-old Ektachrome quickly last night and brought > along a slide taken inside a van. There's a window on the verge of > being blown out and an interior that was so deeply in shadow that it > was almost black. Something taken in a band vehicle a long time ago > of a drummer napping. Before I left this morning I'd scanned the > slide at the 6400 dpi setting on my V700. Lenny scanned it at 8000 > dpi on his Aztek. I've uploaded both a lossless .jpf and a jpeg. The > jpeg actually looks pretty close to the same as the jpf and it's one > meg instead of seventeen, just FYI. You can see them here: > > http://homepage.mac.com/jackson.robert.rex/ > > These are 100% crops. The V700 on top, obviously. I scaled the V700 > scan up to the 8000 dpi so it would be the same size as the Aztek > scan. It's amazing how much more detail the Aztek pulled out of the > slide. And this was a ratty old Ektachrome 400 slide. I can hardly > imagine what well-exposed 6x7 or 4x5 would yield under the right > circumstances. One of the most telling things to me is the etched > printing on the window. You can almost read it in the Aztek scan. And > see the area on the right side of the window frame? The Epson scan > has some kind of strange artifact going on. The edge of the window > all the way down through the curve at the bottom looks very strange. > On the Aztek crop it looks very natural and smooth. It's amazing, > really. Almost too much detail. > > Lenny is a gentleman with a genuine enthusiasm for what he does and a > great wealth of knowledge and experience to guide him. You couldn't > ask for a better demo of the technology. I'm really happy to know > he's just down the road. > > -Robert Jackson > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body