On 5 Apr 2005 at 17:31, Jim Green wrote: > I am told that the newest plate scanners do better than the dedicated 35mm > scanners.
Not true. That all depends on what film scanner you get. A good one will far outstrip the cost of a flatbed scanner and will have better colour reproduction and management and more importantly, have add options to scan lots of slides as opposed to say 2 or 4 at a time. I have 2 personally, a Nikon LS-30 and a Tamarack Artiscan 2400FS. The Nikon is several orders of magnitude better in features, quality etc. However my Nikon is going into the shop as it's autofocus seems to be broken :-( so I am back to the Tamarack unit. > Which plate scanner would be sufficient to produce excellent family photos? Pretty much anything current that has 2400dpi optical resolution or better. Most of the older film scanners did 2400 dpi like 6 years ago, hence their expense, not sure what current models do. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
