Re: [Leica] Flatbed Film Scanner

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

I have the parallel port version of the same scanner, the Acer 620 PT.  It
works pretty well for web use but doesn't have the resolution to make very
big prints from negatives.  I agree it does take a lot of fiddling to get
the proper brightness range from it.  I do mostly use it for black and
white.  All of my web page photos were scanned with this scanner.  I don't
think at that resolution you can tell which were scanned from prints and
which came right off the negative.

I did notice that if you leave it on for a long time that the dark areas get
a lot of sparkles in them.  I just turn it on when I'm going to use it.  Of
course then I have to reboot to get the (Win-98) computer to recognize it.

Mike Durling
KD4KWB
http://www.widomaker.com/~durling/


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Zartarian" <royzart@connix.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Flatbed Film Scanner


> I'm using the Acer 620ST scanner which does film as well as
> reflective material and is inexpensive (I paid about US$190).
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> On prints and b&w negatives without too great a contrast range, its
> performance is acceptable. It falls down on transparencies with
> with lots of dark areas.  And pre-scan color adjustment is tricky.
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> But, I guess you get what you pay for.
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> Roy
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> On 15 Mar 00, at 6:02, D Khong wrote:
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> > Friends
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> > I note that some flatbed scanners comes with a film holder and that can
> > scan slides and negatives.  I am looking for a film scanner but do not
need
> > such a high end rig like a Nikon coolscan as I merely want to get a, say
> > 100 KB jpeg picture file to send to friends.
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> > I will appreciate any feedbacks on these multi-purpose scanners - they
also
> > act like fax machines and colour copiers if required.
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> > TIA.
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> > Dan K.
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