[filmscanners] RE: Scanner for contact sheets

["Lloyd O'Daniel" <lodaniel@bham.rr.com>]

I don't know whether Silverfast can separate 36 frames in a single scan
on the Powerlook III, because I don't own it. I agree with you that it's
overpriced, as are all versions of Silverfast. The company is a bunch of
thieves. The Powerlook III can batch scan up to 12 separate frames using
its film holders and the Umax Magicscan driver (or, I imagine,
Viewscan).

Lloyd



-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Tim Atherton
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:42 PM
To: lodaniel@bham.rr.com
Subject: [filmscanners] RE: Scanner for contact sheets


I think it's actually a function of the Silverfast software that comes
with the scanner.

not sure if you can get that for the smaller epsons (and it costs much
more than it's worth).

tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Tomek
> Zakrzewski
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:23 PM
> To: tim@KairosPhoto.com
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Scanner for contact sheets
>
>
> Tim Atherton wrote:
> > I just plonk neg sheets on the 8x10 tranny bed of my cheap/used Umax

> > Powlerlook III - gives pretty nice "contact sheets"  (main use for
> > the powerlook is 8x10 film).
>
> I wrote improper topic of my initial message, it should have read
> "Automatic batch scanning with moderate resolution". That's what I
> really need. Apart from my LS-4000ED I also have Agfa Arcus 1200
> flatbed scanner and I scan my negs in acetate sheets with it, but even

> without the sheets the quality of the images is awful from the start.
> I need a scanner that is able to scan automatically the whole
> roll, save it
> to disk as separate images and the quality of the pictures should
> be enough
> for viewing and assessing sharpness, exposure etc and also good enough
for
> web presentation as 300x450 pixel jpegs.
> I don't want to do it with my Ls-4000ED as it takes too much time, I
risk
> earlier breakup/cleaningg of the scanner and I don't want to buy the
roll
> film adapter.
>
> I saw the Epson 1680 working and that was it - the whole roll being
> scanned while the operator went for his coffee. He scans these
> pictures for printed
> magazines he makes and the quality is just perfect for the purpose
(it's
> something like "Time Out" in London)
>
> Will the Epson 2450 do the trick, apart from that it can only scan 12
> frames in one batch?
>
> Regards
>
> Tomek
>
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