[filmscanners] Re: New price on Flextight Photo in UK

["Dave King" <kingphoto@mindspring.com>]

I didn't say edge to edge sharpness is a software issue, but shadow detail
and noise in color negs scans certainly is.  That is the part of the neg
that is the easiest for the hardware to deal with.
Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com>
To: <kingphoto@mindspring.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 6:08 AM
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: New price on Flextight Photo in UK


That is not so Dave.  Edge to edge sharpness is not a software issue, it is
a film flatness issue in the scaner, and an area where the curving of the
film in the Flextight helps greatly.  Shadow detail, and particularly noise
in teh shadow detail, is not a software issue, it is an issue of how the
scanning light source and hardware create the noise and accentuate grain.
The depth of detail extracted from the shadow areas is not a software issue
(altough software can help) but also to do with the Dmax of the scanner.
Colour and clarity can also be assisted using Vuwscan, but the scanner has
to be able to record them reasonably accurately in the first place.

I am confident that Vuescan will not help to resolve some of these issue,
particularly edge to edge sharpness.  I use Vuescan all the time and will
try and re-do my comparison using it with the SS120 and MSMP.

Simon

Dave King wrpte:

> When you're scanning color negs software is the determining factor in all
> the parameters you mention except detail resolution.  I don't know how
much
> the price of the Flextight has fallen, but those using the other scanners
> you mention can take heart in the fact that Vuescan exists.
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com>
> To: <kingphoto@mindspring.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 5:39 PM
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: New price on Flextight Photo in UK
>
>
> David Lewiston wrote:
>
> > Simon
> >
> > To answer my own question about 'how much scanner?'...
> >
> > Just did another websearch on Imacon. At the Luminous Landscape site I
> found
> > the following entry for Oct 24, 2001: "At the beginning of this month
> Imacon
> > announced that they had reduced the price of the Imacon Flextight Photo
to
> > US$6,495 from its original price of $9,995. I have just been informed
that
> > Imacon is currently offering a limited-time US$1,500 mail-in rebate
which
> > effectively reduces the net cost to the end-user to $4,995."
> >
> > It seems to be the Flextight 1, which does 35mm only at a resolution of
> > 3,200 dpi, about half the resolution of its big brother.
> >
>
> David
>
> It is indeed the Flextight Photo.  I used this in the dealer to scan a
35mm
> and 6x6 neg on a Sprintscan 120, Minolta Dimage Scan Multi Pro and the
> Flextight Photo.  At 3200 dpi and with a Dmax of 4.1 the Flextight blew
the
> others away with far superior scans in detail (shadow and highlight),
> clarity, colour, edge to edge sharpness etc. etc.
>
> I will be getting my one on Monday :-)
>
> Simon
>
>
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