Plan B would be to go with an Epson flatbed. I did some fiddling with my Microtek 5900 and actually got some decent film scans - but I had to put the film down on the glass and got a lot of Newton rings. Lifting the film off the scanner glass a bit (i.e. - a mounted slide) was enough to make the image soft. So I doubt this will be of much use (and since it was a $150 scanner I can't complain!)
Thanks again -
MCC
At 06:25 PM 2/8/2004 -0500, Mark Roberts wrote:
Yes, that's exactly what I've found, 1125 dpi is so low a resolution that it can't pick out film grain. The result is remarkably similar to digital: great accutance and vanishingly low noise/grain. 645 scans come out at around 4.5 megapixels and with Genuine Fractals make beautiful prints at 12 x 16 (as big as I can go with my printer). No less a curmudgeon than Mike Johnston was impressed with the quality of prints at this size when I showed him some at GFM in 2002. A 67 slide ought to yield around 7.6 megapixels, which should make very nice large prints.
I have no intention of selling my Scan Multi in the foreseeable future, but that's exactly the problem when it comes to finding a second hand one: Those who have them aren't keen on the idea of parting with them. Unlike many "pro" scanners, this one really seems like professional-grade construction. It's very solidly built. I have the optional slide feeder for scanning batches of mounted 35mm slides. (*That* was hideously expensive - and worth every penny!)
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