[filmscanners] Re: Scanner & printer

2002-05-26 Thread David J. Littleboy
"Arthur Entlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Have you discussed this slowness with Epson yet, to determine if that is the "norm" or just either a defective unit or some weirdness in your system. I find this very odd, as I haven't yet heard another discussion of this problem. Re

[filmscanners] Re: Scanner & printer

2002-05-26 Thread Arthur Entlich
David J. Littleboy wrote: > > It seems to be between the Canon 9000 (dye-based inks) and the pigment ink > Epson 2100, 2200, or 4000 (same printer: the only difference is where you > buy it). The Canon (as I understand it) doesn't do full-bleed A3. However, > I'm finding the Epson 950C _very_

[filmscanners] Re: Scanner & printer

2002-05-26 Thread Arthur Entlich
Look at it, but don't necessarily buy it ;-) The Minolta Multi Pro has received overall good reviews, but it does suffer from the same problems all the Minolta recent scanners seem to... exaggerated grain, dust and scratches and somewhat less effective IR clean up. But ultimately "Ops" is right

[filmscanners] Re: Scanner & printer

2002-05-25 Thread David J. Littleboy
"Op's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Me: (I was particularly disturbed by the > noise ("grain") in the examples discussed here a while ago.) That's not my experience of the Minolta. Yes its only 3200 optical for 120 film but 6x6 scan is - 145M tiff file which is quite sufficient to work

[filmscanners] Re: Scanner & printer

2002-05-25 Thread Op's
"David J. Littleboy" wrote: > "Op's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have a look at the Minolta Scan Multi Pro > > It looks to me that the Multi Pro is the best 35mm scanner available, but > that it's behind the 8000 for MF work. (I was particularly disturbed by the > noise ("grain") in the ex

[filmscanners] Re: Scanner & printer

2002-05-24 Thread David J. Littleboy
"Op's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have a look at the Minolta Scan Multi Pro It looks to me that the Multi Pro is the best 35mm scanner available, but that it's behind the 8000 for MF work. (I was particularly disturbed by the noise ("grain") in the examples discussed here a while ago.) > >

[filmscanners] Re: Scanner & printer

2002-05-24 Thread david soderman
> Have a look at the Minolta Scan Multi Pro > > rm For slides, fine. For negs, I would say a big "thumbs down". I do have extensive real-world experience in that realm. I've already learned the hard lessons the expensive way. Joyfully, -david soderman- <>< ---