I'm even later on this one, but I have a ScanWit 2700 which I use with VueScan, and the combination produces very good results. As the name implies, the files it produces are at 2700dpi, and the software generally copes well with exposure variations: although some 40 year old Kodachromes I scanned recently are showing a magenta cast, which is proving very hard to eliminate. I also acquired today a very small unit, branded Otek, which scans at 3600dpi, and does the scan in 0.5 seconds - not a typo! For a quick and dirty scan for the web, that's very useful. At larger magnifications, the image shows some faint banding, but that disappears at web resolution. It takes an SD/MMC card for storage, and has a 32MB internal memory which can be used if there is no card. Feed and operation are manual, and the slide carrier only holds three slides, so it is not suitable for very large scan jobs. The negative carrier will hold a strip of six, however, so that might be more usable.
Recommended as backup for your main scanner, certainly. John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Studdert Sent: Monday, 22 March 2010 1:24 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Sick of cheap scans On 20/03/2010, Nick Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > G, > > This is why I am so upset. I went to a "pro" lab and had expensive > "high quality" scans done. And I am just not happy with the quality. It may be a bit late but I'll add my 2c worth in. Having owned and used way too many scanners all I can say re the quality of the scan that you linked to is that it's complete crap. You should be able to obtain far better results from a dedicated film scanner that's well over 10 years old. Film scanning is tedious at best but it's not too difficult to get a film image into the digital domain with good results. Like others have suggested I would use the premium dedicated film scan service suggested or simply save your pennies and look for a good value used Nikon or Minolta film scanner. Spending money to get the results you got is a waste of money. Cheers, -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- 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. -- 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.
