[filmscanners] Re: New price on Flextight Photo in UK

["Dave King" <kingphoto@mindspring.com>]

When you're scanning color negs software is the determining factor in all
the parameters you mention except detail resolution.  I don't know how much
the price of the Flextight has fallen, but those using the other scanners
you mention can take heart in the fact that Vuescan exists.

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com>
To: <kingphoto@mindspring.com>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: New price on Flextight Photo in UK


David Lewiston wrote:

> Simon
>
> To answer my own question about 'how much scanner?'...
>
> Just did another websearch on Imacon. At the Luminous Landscape site I
found
> the following entry for Oct 24, 2001: "At the beginning of this month
Imacon
> announced that they had reduced the price of the Imacon Flextight Photo to
> US$6,495 from its original price of $9,995. I have just been informed that
> Imacon is currently offering a limited-time US$1,500 mail-in rebate which
> effectively reduces the net cost to the end-user to $4,995."
>
> It seems to be the Flextight 1, which does 35mm only at a resolution of
> 3,200 dpi, about half the resolution of its big brother.
>

David

It is indeed the Flextight Photo.  I used this in the dealer to scan a 35mm
and 6x6 neg on a Sprintscan 120, Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro and the
Flextight Photo.  At 3200 dpi and with a Dmax of 4.1 the Flextight blew the
others away with far superior scans in detail (shadow and highlight),
clarity, colour, edge to edge sharpness etc. etc.

I will be getting my one on Monday :-)

Simon


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