Hi! Bill, from your response and from other responses I gather that Epson 2450 is a satisfactory film scanner, even for 35 mm film. It is not top quality, but I suppose to expect a top film scanning quality from flatbed scanner is at least illogical.
OTOH, at the moment I am struggling with local labs. Obviously they wouldn't babysit and fine tune their machine for my films. So, quite often scans come out with very lousy quality. Another problem would be that for sure in Israel to find a dedicated film scanner would cost me at least 1.5 times more than its actual price. So I suppose I am left with little choice. The only thing that would stop me is too steep a price or too old a unit. Since none of you reported any aging problems or any mechanical glitches with your scanners I must conclude that Epson 2450 is a reasonably reliable machine. As for the scans themselves. I've witnessed a person who is going to sell me the scanner getting roughly 12 MP file from 35 mm negative. Of course 12 MP exceeds by some 3 MP maximal optical power of the sucker. Still the 30x40 cm print was very good. Since at the moment my aim is at most! 30x40 cm prints, I'd say it would be acceptable. My rough estimate would be that if it does not break down within a year, it will return the investment... Then it could be replaced or augmented with another device. Am I terribly wrong someplace in my reasoning? --- Boris Liberman www.geocities.com/dunno57 www.photosig.com/viewuser.php?id=38625
