[photo-3d] Final Scanner Test List

["Dan Shelley" <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First, thanks to everyone who responded! =) Bob Aldridge has
volunteered to make us all slides to scan on our individual machines.
He has also volunteered to collect the original high-res images to
burn back to film to create a slide show for the Buffalo NSA
convention showing the result files per scanner.

To achieve this, he will be sending me a set of "identical" slides
which I will have to forward on to each of you. After scanning the
images in following a set of strict requirements/standards which we
will agree upon as a group, you will need to send the master images
back to me to be pulled together for the final web display, and to be
sent on to Bob to be re-burned to slides. This can either be done via
specifically timed electronic transfer (to not overload any systems
along the way) or via CDs burnt by some of you with that capability.
Maybe the final CD can even be made available for personal study...
Hum... =)

I am excited to see the final results and hope to have a solid cost
vs. features = results table to aid all of us and the rest of the P3D
group in any future hardware purchase decisions.

FYI - This is the final test list of scanners: (There were a few
duplicate volunteer systems... Let me know if you WANT to do this and
are not on this list and I will do my best...)

5000 DPI Drum Scan - Boris Starosta
Acerscan 620ST - Ron Beck
Acer Scanwit 2720S - John Bittner
Agfa Snapscan e50 - Paul Ivester
Canoscan 2700 - Martin Simon
Digital Camera (?) - Gabriel Jacob
Epson 1640SU Photo - David Kesner
HP Photo Smart Scan (Original) - Bob Shotsberger
HP Photo Smart Scan (2nd - S20 USB) - Steve Berezin
HP Scanjet 5370 C - Roger Ferragallo
Microtek ScanMaker 4 - Harold R. Baize
Microtek X6 with LightLid - Dan Shelley
Minolta Dimage Scan Dual - Jim Crowell
Nikon Coolpix 950 - Danny Vint
Nikon LS-2000 - Shab Levy
Plustek Flatbed - Gabriel Jacob
Polaroid SprintScan 4000 - Larry Ferguson
Polaroid SS4000 with VueScan software - Bob Aldridge
Primefilm 1800U - RJ Thorpe
Umax PowerLook III - Danny Vint

Again, thanks to those who have volunteered to join in this project.
Bob, it looks like we will need 16 copies of the slide - is that too
much?? (Assumes you and I can use one and pass it along and counts
that two folks are doing two kinds of scans.)

Comments?

Dan Shelley