[photo-3d] Re: slide scanner

[rvh13@xxxxxxxxxxx]

> So was the scanner good?  If so, how come you got rid of it?

I wasn't overly impressed, so I returned it.  I was using it with a 
Macintosh , and the driver was clearly a bad port from the 
Windows version.  I tried it with a Windows box and it was better, 
but not much.  All of the positive scans I did turned out quite dark, 
and the negative scans required heavy editing of the brightness, 
contrast and color.  You can scan only one side of a stereo slide 
at a time - with a transparency adapter on a flatbed scanner, you 
can scan both chips at once, which is way more efficient.

I eventually ended up with an Epson 1240u with the transparency 
adapter.  It cost about $100 more, and the resolution is not as 
high, but I think that the scan quality is a step up.  I am less than 
satisfied - the same scanner which does a superb job doing a 
reflective scan does a mediocre job on a transparency scan.  I 
think that it is a hardware issue; it must be more difficult to do, 
though I have not tried a high end film scanner

    -rvh


 

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