Peter Parry wrote:


Problem with scanners is that they are designed for sheets of paper
and the slide scanning is almost without exception mediocre. I've

Depends on what you use. Some of the top end film scanners used for
comecial repro are actually flatbed, although we are talking 10,000
quid here ;-)

For the ones that have transparency scanning added as an afterthought I
would however agree, the results ara a bit disapointing.

tried the 1670 and would suggest it's performance on slides is very
significantly inferior to the results obtained by a 1M pixel camera
with a good lens.

The 1690 Pro does actually give quite acceptable results, but does lack
ICE.

If you want decent results you really need a slide scanner and, if
the slides are old one, with integral Digital ICE

A friend recently bought a Epson Perfection 4870 Photo Scanner, which
has an optical resolution of 4800 X 9600 Dpi. More importantly it has a
DMax of 3.8 which matches and in some cases exceeeds that of the top end
Nikon film scanners. It also has ICE. This makes a decent job of 35mm
originals.

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Cheers,

John.

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