On Oct 15, 2011, at 5:39 AM, Toralf Lund wrote: > On 10/15/11 3:40, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> On Oct 14, 2011, at 9:30 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >>> Get a used film scanner. No contest. >> I have a lot of medium format film to scan as well and even some 4x5, so a >> film scanner is pretty much out of the question. In any case, the Epson 700 >> with a d-max of 4.0 and 4800 dpi native resolution appears to be very close >> in performance to some film scanners. > Well, that's just the performance of the image sensors, and the conventional > wisdom is that general-purpose flatbeds are poorer than dedicated film > scanners due to optical limitations... >
Of course, but in practice the best Epsons seem quite good. The 700 reportedly has two lenses. I don't know what that means exactly or how much of a difference it makes. In any case, the only film scanner that would be suitable would be one that accommodates medium format, and those are very expensive. Paul > - T > >> That being said, I haven't seen any real definitive side-by-side tests. >> >>> -- >>> Mark Roberts - Photography& Multimedia >>> www.robertstech.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. -- 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.
