On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Walter Hamler wrote: > Some interesting dialog on Scanners here. Just thought I would > share my > perspective. > I have an older HP Photosmart S20. It has been out of production > for several > years and I had not used it for awhile, until I got my new desktop > computer > last year. It has XP Pro, and as I was hooking up the scanner to do > a slide, > I remembered that there was something in the installation > instructions that > said it was not compatible with XP. As I was looking for the > manual, I heard > the computer "beep". I looked to see the window that said "My new > Hardware > was ready to use"! I had never been real happy with the scanner > under ME > (Old Computer), but I have to say this thing began a new life with XP. > It is only 2600 dpi max, and will scan slides, film strips, and up > to 5x7 > prints. The print scans are at 300 dpi max, and my dedicated Canon > flatbed > still does a better job in that area. But I am totally happy with the > results on film. > Here is a scan of a 1977 Kodachrome 64 slide. > > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/newtmaker/RoyalGorge1977.jpg
That's pretty nice! There is something of a magenta cast which could be corrected easily. The HP S20 has a somewhat convoluted light path and was never really outstanding, but it was a decent scanner at a reasonable price in its day. HP never produced a Mac OS X driver for it ... I believe that the HP's USB firmware is incompatible rendering it impossible to use on Apple hardware, not even VueScan supports it on Mac OS ... but I know many who switched to VueScan to get the most out of it on the Windows platform. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
