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Christian Skofteland wrote:
Chris;
I have the SCSI version of the scanner in question. It works great, but care is needed to avoid dust, etc.
I scan B&W after developing the negs myself and use the color film setting on the scanner for greater resolution and then suck the color out before final scan. Other than that, I never do any adjustments for B&W and the 8x10s I print on my Epson 880 (as color prints for better detail and tone) are good enough for me to frame and hang on the wall.
Lately I've become much better at scanning slides (I scan them un-mounted because I feel the scans are sharper that way as they are a bit flatter in the scanner) by tweaking the contrast and color before final scan. The histogram has helped a lot in this regard.
I'm not sure what you mean by "questionable build quality. My HP seems pretty well built and I am more than happy with it.
Christian Skofteland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Comer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey everyone, This is a little off topic but I can't read another post about dslrs. Anywho, I'm thinking about buying an HP S20xi film scanner. It lacks ICE and has questionable build quality but it's easy to find new for around $100. So, for anyone who has owned this scanner, comments would be appreciated. I do have a question though. For B&W, I was thinking I could develop the b&w film at home and then scan the negatives into the computer. Anyone tried any b&w neg. scanning? Ideally, I would just like a way to show others some of my slides and perhaps make a quick 5x7 print on the inkjet and leave quality enlargements to the fuji frontier. Thanks for any comments or suggestions.
-Chris
