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The Perfection 2450 and the new 3200 are pretty good for scanning negatives and slides. I actually prefer the scans from my 2450 to the ones from my Canon FS4000. Especially if you have mid and large format slides or negatives, using a flatbed is a much more cost effictive solution, for large format you may not even be able to=20 find a dedicated film scanner (that is as long as we are not talking about drum scanners). I know that a lot of professionals use the Expression series of Epson scanners for this purpose.=20 As always, it's a tradeoff: The more expensive the scanner technology, the more likely you are to get accurate scans. The cheaper the technology, the more likely you are to do scans at home. Somewhere between the two extremes a solution that works for you price wise and image quality wise. On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:02:37AM +0000, Jonathan Buzzard wrote: >=20 > [email protected] said: > > A good choice is probably the Epson Perfection 2450 Photo. It comes > > with frames for 35 mm negatives, 35 mm slides, 6x9 cm negatives/ > > slides (here also fit 6x6 negatives/slides), and even for 4x5 inch > > negatives/slides. >=20 > > The scanner works with the "epson" driver of SANE and is also > > supported directly by Epson with the iScan driver. >=20 > > I didn't try slide scanning with it as I don't have slides.=20 >=20 > Though I have to query the point of scanning 6x9 negatives/slides > which is an expensive professional photography system on a very > suboptimal scanner for the job i.e. any flatbed. A more suitable > choice would be something like the Minolta Scan Multi Pro or the > Nikon LS8000. More expensive but does the job properly, and includes > an IR channel which in my experience is worth it's weight in gold. >=20 > JAB. >=20 > --=20 > Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: [email protected] > Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44(0)1661-832195 >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel --=20 Karl Heinz Kremer [email protected] PGP Key at http://www.khk.net/download/khk.asc EPSON Sane Backend: http://www.khk.net --QTprm0S8XgL7H0Dt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+PSH5xejv3RfKrhsRAjWqAJ94+f8LCVAK884H1jGfjg4G/EoQGgCbB4Kf 1mir00LK0m+I/CV62z9R1MM= =Kl/I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --QTprm0S8XgL7H0Dt--
