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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
