Has anyone produced reasonable scans of negatives with Epson Perfection 1260? I don't have windows, so I don't really know what the best this scanner can do is, but xsane produces unacceptable results.
Some have mentioned the "stripes" that appear in the scans. I too, get something like stripes on the scans. A long time ago someone in the archives has suspected something like a self calibration failure. I doubt this is the case. The stripes seem to be as a result of noise. Sufficiently light slides scan okay. Negatives and darker slides, which require software brightening, suffer from the noise. I suspect the noise appears a bit striped because some parts of the sensor are more susceptible. This theory is backed up by expirent where, instead of the film adapter unit, I used a brighter lamp to illuminate the slide. This seems to lead to reduced noise and apparently no stripes. Somehow I suspect that windows software will not produce this noise. Could it be possible that the TPU has a brigthness settings which (x)sane doesn't set properly? Or that the scanner sensor has some sensitivity setting which is not set properly? -Timo
