Re: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread Ezio
> i had like some advise on buying a flatbed with transparancy adapter. 2 years ago I had the same idea and I have bought an HP 6200c ... it was the shi@est idea of my life because of my ignorance about scanning . After few weeks of swearing in Italian, Arabic and English and thanks to the su

Re: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread Elroy Eckhardt
Dear Jan, I have an Epson 1600 which is now supported by Vuescan. It comes with an adapter for 35mm film that holds 4 strips of six exposures. I have not used it for making contact sheets since I do not process my own film. It does very good medium format scans with Vuescan at 1600dpi so I ass

Re: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread Robert E. Wright
Why would you want to use a flatbed scanner for contact sheets when you have a better film scanner? Any film scanner? You could scan at what ever resolution you want and build the "contact sheet" in software. Many catalog programs and other programs provide "browsers" for this purpose. Photoshop

Re: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread sirius
it takes too much time to scan the amounts i shoot. i need the sheets for fast selection. i find the $ 4.5 charge of my local service bureau quiete a lot considering the contacts are pretty unsharp most of the time. I thought making digital contactsheets and having a digital archive of them would

Re: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread Johnny Deadman
on 18/10/00 2:48 pm, Robert E. Wright at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why would you want to use a flatbed scanner for contact sheets when you have > a better film scanner? Any film scanner? > > You could scan at what ever resolution you want and build the "contact > sheet" in software. Many catalo

Re: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread sirius
yep, exactly. that and the way they $$$make$$$ me wait for contactsheets at my local service bureau does make me want a fast flatbed scanner. Jan Albrecht > > contact sheets from any directory/folder. The product should certainly be > > better than you're going to get using a flatbed scanner for

Re: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread Tony Sleep
> Why would you want to use a flatbed scanner for contact sheets when you > have > a better film scanner? Any film scanner? > > You could scan at what ever resolution you want and build the "contact > sheet" in software. Many catalog programs and other programs provide > "browsers" for this purp

RE: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread Hornford, Dave
Any hints on where to find this function? regards Dave -Original Message- > You could scan at what ever resolution you want and build the "contact > sheet" in software. Many catalog programs and other programs provide > "browsers" for this purpose. Photoshop even includes a function to

RE: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread Austin Franklin
> The entire > rest of my week would be spent farting about with the filmscanner. Johnny, I hope you don't smoke ;-) The filmscanners mailing list is hosted by http://www.halftone.co.uk To resign, w

RE: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread Austin Franklin
> Why would you want to use a flatbed scanner for contact sheets when you have > a better film scanner? Any film scanner? > You could scan at what ever resolution you want and build the "contact > sheet" in software. Hum. One 1 minute scan of an entire roll of film, vs 1 hour of scanning 36 f

RE: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread Laurie Solomon
Look under File->Automated->Contact Sheet. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hornford, Dave Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 7:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets? Any hi

RE: What is a good flatbedscanner for making contact sheets?

2000-10-18 Thread Austin Franklin
How about the UMax 2100XL. It has a 12x17 bed, and has a transparency adapter...if you get the right 'bundle' Here's a comparison of the models: http://www.umax.com/professional/standard/products/comparison.cfm The filmsca