From what I can see, the only real improvement in flatbed scanners in the last few years has been in speed. The newer ones may have greater contrast range too, but even my ancient one does well enough scanning prints.
Graywolf Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter Hamler wrote: > I currently have a Canon Canoscan that I have had in service through 3 > different computers and three different OS. It works from inside PSE > and does what I want, but now I am looking at doing a favor for > someone, scanning some old family pics that may need some TLC as far > as post processing and scanner capability. > Question : Will I really see a big enough quality increase from a new > scanner compared to this 5 or 6 year old Canon? And if so, what are > some recommendayions? I don't really want one that does slides/negs > as well, as I have a good film scanner. I also would not really want a > high end version if a 150.00 one will do just as good. > > Walt > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
