I'd say deceptive rather than dishonest, and not really that deceptive - you
do get the advantage of a twelve bit scan for the supplied application,
which allows you to choose which eight bits you pass to the application.
Most graphics applications can't use the 12 bits anyway, and certainly not
those you'd expect a user of a consumer scanner costing £200 or so to use.
The way I phrased the response in one thread was misleading - it is a 12 bit
scanner, it just doesn't make all 12 bits available externally.
mike
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Wolfson
Sent: 25 October 2000 19:06
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: VueScan & Epson 1200S success & question.
Mike, I think you are right, and I have been had by Epson. They lie!
I tried an experiment: I scanned a baseball (for smooth density
gradient) at 300 ppi both ways on my 1200U: saved as 24 bit tiff and 48
bit tiff. Then opened both in Photoshop, and did a levels adjustment,
moving black up to 128 and white down to 196, to accentuate the
difference between 8 bit and 12 bit data.
The resulting images looked the same, and so did their histograms.
Looking at the green, for instance, I see nice rows of spikes with big
spaces between -- both the same.
Since I bought this scanner in part for the 12 bit data Epson promised,
I may now return it and get a UMax. What a scam! Would you say Epson
specs are dishonest, or merely deceptive?
regards,
Richard Wolfson
rwolfson at LyricDesign.com
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