[filmscanners] RE: scanner for a lot of slides

["Tomek Zakrzewski" <tomzakrz@ka.onet.pl>]

Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> I find that unless I just want to do crappy scans and take what I get, I
> usually have to do some of them over, perhaps with multi-scanning turned
on
> to capture dark detail. Even with practice, I doubt I could average five
> minutes per scan, so at that rate, you're talking more than a full
> eight-hour work day to do 100 scans. That's not what I want to spend my
life
> doing.
But we're not talking about multiscanning or 16bit color. We're talking: do
what you can in 2-3 minutes and give a customer good enough prints from a
digilab.
The point is that in my country fewer and fewer firms offer R-3 prints from
slides. And digital minilabs don't want to bother with adjusting the whole
machine for several slides of different condition. Fortunately, they can
print files made from filmcanners.

> It might be cheaper to buy a cheap scanner and hire
> some college kid to run it.
That's exactly what I'm talking about!
Currently we're using Microtek 3600. It takes one minute for one scan but
two things several things are unacceptable with it: no ICE, it sharpens
images even when sharpening is switched off and it show banding on scans
from dark slides which are made slightly brighter. The dmax is also to low.
So I'm still looking for another scanner which could better suit my needs.


Regards

Tomek Zakrzewski


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