At 11:10 1/10/01, you wrote: Hi Paul
I've had one for a year and a half (or thereabouts) and find it is adequate. I don't try to push it past its limits and am happy with it overall. There are better scanners, but for the $500 you paid, you'll will be hard pressed to find one. :-) To minimise the dust on negatives I go through a routine every time I use the scanner. I turn it on its side, open it up and blow out the film path with the little blue blower thingy. I the re-calibrate the scanner and off I go. I finnd that doing that does help a lot in minimising the dust problems. I also give the negs a blow of air as well. I don't know that you can eliminate the problem entirely, so a bit of prevention goes a long way. I've only started printing some of the scans I've done, so I am glad I usually scanned them in initially at 2400dpi and saved them as tiffs. I've had a couple of problems with the USB port losing the scanner too. I'm pretty sure it's a VIA USB problem, not a HP problem. Good luck with it. Cheers >Hi, > >I have been scanning my negs and slides at work on a Microtek Scanmaster 4 >and have been really really unhappy with the results. I went into a store to >buy a dishwasher on Friday evening and ended up walking out with a >Photosmart S20 film scanner aswell :) it was reduced to $499au (around >$250us) from $995au. So as a results Saturday was a scanning frenzy and i've >so far been really happy with the results. The colour reproduction is spot >on, the images loose a little bit of sharpness which is easily corrected in >PS. I think the 2400dpi will be fine for my curren use, which is mainly web >images and PUG submissions. > >I think the worst part about it all is dust on the negs. > >I dont have a good enough printer to make any prints, so i'm not sure how >well it works in that respect. > >I also love being able to scan strips of 5 negs at a time. > >Have any other list members got this scanner and how do you find? any tips >for better scans? > >Regards, >Paul Jones >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . Jon Relax! Take life as it comes, you can't chase the sun, you can't race the wind - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
