Re: flat bed scanner

[Bill Fernandez <bill_sub@billfernandez.com>]

Hi Ian--

I recently bought a ScanMaker 8700 and it has been working well as a 
general purpose scanner.  For scanning transparencies it has a slot 
that holds trays with mounts for various film sizes.

The 4 x 5 tray holds two images.  The only 4 x 5 target I have is the 
Kodak Q60 calibration target that came with the scanner, but the 
woman's face looks very good, so my guess is that it'd be a nice 4x5 
scanner.

For 35mm slides I've found I can lay 20 slides on the 8 x 10 glass 
tray and scan them in a batch, which makes the creation of "contact" 
sheets pretty fast for slides, and the quality is more than you'd 
ever need for web-quality scans.  There's also a special tray where 
you can snap 12 slides into separate slots, but just laying them out 
on the glass tray is faster.

There's a tray that holds 2 6-exposure strips of 35mm film which 
works fine but of course takes time.  I haven't yet tried just laying 
some negative strips on the 8x10 glass tray for faster contact 
sheets, but I will someday.

--Bill


At 11:11 AM -0800 18-11-01, Ian Stanley wrote:
>Hello,
>
>	I am in the process of setting up shop in Canada after living for many
>years out of the country and am in need of a flat bed scanner.  The plan is
>to use this for making contact sheets, general scanning, and hopefully
>scanning 4x5 negatives and transparencies.  The 4x5 scans will be used for
>small prints and helping to determine what images are worth a drum scan.  I
>am currently using a Nikon LS200 for my 35mm work.  Just before I left
>Bangkok the Epson 1640su Photo with the 4x5 transparency adapter seemed to
>be close to what I was looking for.  Would this unit be practical or are
>there some other models that I should be looking at?  Thanks in advance.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Ian
>
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