Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I recently bought the Acer Scanwit 2720S which scans at 2700dpi and seems to give very good results. It cost just under £300 in the UK and comes with a scsi2 card. It can scan a strip of six negs (or four mounted transparencies) at a time. I'm not sure if this is available (or called something else) in the US but it's very good value. Brian McCarthy straightline design brian@straightline.co.uk www.straightline.co.uk > > > on 24/7/00 10:02 am, M.E.Berube - GoodPhotos at meb@goodphotos.com wrote: > > > For those of us who are trying to save our coppers for quality lenses > > first, is there a less expensive film scanner on the market that still > > delivers quality scans? > > Minolta Scan Dual (the Dual II out any moment) is very, very good value > around the $500 mark. All of Human Traffic on my site was scanned > with this > scanner. Limitations are the 3.0 Dmax and the 2400 dpi resolution (though > the difference between 2400 and 2700 is marginal). Moving up, the > Scan Elite > is the next best thing to an LS2000, though nobody in the world > seems to use > one for some reason. > -- > Johnny Deadman > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com > > >