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David, I cannot really judge because I never used
the "Expresion" series, but I know a professional photographer who scans his
large format negatives (8x10") to make piezo BW prints with it. He uses the
Expression 1640 pro/XL and seems to be fine with the machine.
Concerning the Perfection line, I think that
considering the price of the transpareny adapter (under 100 $) and the technique
used (flatbed) just does´t make me expect more, even despite of what some
enthusiastic users might say. I already did an 8x10 print based on a 1200
perfection negative scan, but any dedicated and decent negative scanner should
do much better there. I never worked on an hi quality flatbed with transpareny,
seems that except the Linotype and maybe the professonal Afa (Duoscan) there
aren´t many of them available. And they are always *much* more expensive than
the consumer models.
I will need a good scanner when I will have started
into medium format photography, and and I am worried about the high price of the
interesting machines like Polaroid, Nikon and the forthcoming
Minolta.
greetings Bernhard
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 4:59
AM
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Epson 2450 for
MF film scanning?
Bernhard Ess wrote:
"Well this is not really Epsons
fault - just look at the prices - the 1200
and 1640 Perfection are cheap
consumer machines compared to hi quality
machines: look what the Linotype
scanners cost"
I take your point, I just happen to think that - even at
this price point -
a scanner that's sold as a "photo" model complete with a
tranny hood and
film carriers should do a rather better job than the
Perfection models
manage.
I don't expect them to be robust enough to
scan all day and every day - I
expect to pay a very much higher price for
that sort of engineering - but I
think they should produce results that are
a *little* closer to their
manufacturer's hype. FWIW I haven't been much
more impressed with the
Expression models from the same company.
My
interest in this kind of scanner is as an economical way of scanning 5x4
at
home, so I wasn't really pushing the Epsons hard, certainly not as hard
as
someone would who wanted to use them for MF.
--
David Morton
dmorton@journalist.co.uk
"The
more opinions you have, the less you see." -- Wim
Wenders.
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