[filmscanners] RE: Flatbeds for 6x6 negs.

["Lloyd O'Daniel" <lodaniel@bham.rr.com>]

I read that review (after my purchase fortunately), and could not
disagree more. I just recently purchased a used Powerlook III from Ebay.
One of the prime reasons was I wanted a full-page tranny adapter to do
contact sheets of negatives. I've done about 15 so far and have had no
problems scanning color negs. The scans are quite good. I will say that
I usually get better results with Magicscan on manual rather than using
the Binuscan option, at least with contacts. I usually use the black
eyedropper on clear film base to set exposure. Perhaps Binuscan is
fooled with all the "black" in a typical contact sheet. I also have
Vuescan, but haven't tried it with this scanner yet. Based on my
experience, I would have no problem recommending the Umax for color
negs.

I haven't been up close and personal to high-end Epson scanners, but my
previous one was a perfection 1200S. The Umax is much more solidly
built. It's an impressive machine.

Lloyd



-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Alessandro Pardi
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 4:27 AM
To: lodaniel@bham.rr.com
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Flatbeds for 6x6 negs.


Giving that I shoot negatives, for various reasons, this quote from the
review in the link below is enough to keep me away from the Umax:

"The only real failure was in scanning color negatives".

I also remember some review where the 2450 was judged better than the
Umax, but can't find right now in my links...

Alessandro Pardi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: c.k.christacopoulos@dundee.ac.uk 
> [mailto:c.k.christacopoulos@dundee.ac.uk]
> Sent: giovedì 23 maggio 2002 13.48
> To: alessandro.pardi@inferentiadnm.com
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Flatbeds for 6x6 negs.
> 
> 
> ** Reply to note from filmscanners@halftone.co.uk Thu, 23 May
> 2002 10:39:20 +0200
> 
> 
> > Steve,
> >
> > this is very interesting. Does anyone know about places on
> the web where
> > scans from these two scanners are compared?
> >
> > Alessandro Pardi
> 
> I haven't found much at all about the Epson Expression 1680 Pro.
> 
> Here is some interesting stuff relating to Umax Powerlook III 
> http://www.image-acquire.com/scanner/reviews/umaxpl3.shtml
> (look in particular at the 3 scans of the first slide).
> 
> ----------------------
> 
> http://scannerplace.com.au/reviews.htm  (slow site) 
> http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=001VpY
> 
> Let me know if you find anything.
> 
> Charles
> 
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