[HUG] Re: OT: Epson flatbed scanners

Oliver,
I just bought the 4490 (refurbished at 90 dollars from epson store) and had very little time to test it so far. What surprised me was that I performed the following test with the following results 
1) scanned a black and white document at 72dpi - perfect quality
2) scanned a CD cover at 300 dpi - perfect results
3) scanned a 120 film positive at 1200dpi - horrible yellow vertical lines and incredible digital noise and solarization 
4) scanned a 120 film positive at 300dpi - same horrible results
5) scanned a 120 film positive at 50 dpi - same pitiful results.
At this point I was ready to return it. I was doing this testing in the office and while I left the desk for a second a colleague tried again test #4 this time with perfect results. I will keep testing again on Monday as I didn't have any more time left on Friday afternoon, but I just want to alert you that for some weird reason the scanner might have these initial misbehaviors... Not sure what the technical cause would be. 

Francesco

Oliver Bryk wrote:

I am considering whether to build a website and populate it with images
scanned from selected negatives going back more than 15 years. Because I am
not in a position to buy a dedicated MF film scanner, and the scans would
not be used for printing, I am looking at the Epson flatbed scanner with a
film strip holder. I gather from the product manual http://tinyurl.com/2rrosa that the film 
strip holder accepts only two 6x6 frames at a time. Having learned in my
youth to always expect the worst, I wonder whether the frames that are not
going to snapped into the film holder will be damaged. I would love to hear from anyone who has experience with this contraption. 
Oliver



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