I agree that a cheap contact-sheet scanner would probably sell well, both here in the USA and wherever photographers are born. 600ppi would be good enough for scanning prints and good for scanning contact sheets.
FWIW, on the Epson refurbished equipment site, I did find a refurbished tabloid-sized scanner and (separately) the transparency attachment for a total price of somewhere around $200, in case anybody is looking for what now amounts to a cheap contact-sheet scanner. (By then, I had already ordered a 2450 as a compromise film/contact sheet scanner myself.) - David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 6:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Making contact sheets on a flatbed scanner On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:13:25 -0700 Bill Fernandez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Microtek makes a number of scanners with an 8 x 10 transparency bed, > and will scan negatives and do the inversion and orange mask removal > for you, but the transparency bed is on a tray inside the scanner so > you can't leave the negs in their acetate sleeves. They do indeed, and I've seen printed scans of 5x4 from the 8700 which were excellent. However I want to be able to use the top half of a Paterson 35mm contact frame in the drawer, as it has plastic grippers which overlap adjacent strips and gets 6x strips of 6negs onto a 10x8" sheet. However I've been unable to find out whether the 8700 (or any other) will cope with the 6mm or so thickness of the frame+glass sandwich. However the 8700 is 680GBP, so OTT anyway. As are all scanners I've found capable of >5x4 transparency scanning. I keep saying this : if some mfr would make a dedicated low-res (600ppi) contact printing scanner, capable of 6 strips on 10x8, or 4 @3 6x6 etc, they'd sell shedloads if the price was reasonable - say $300US. Nobody needs wonderful quality contacts, just reasonable colour and capable of 2x enlargement. David??! I'd buy one tomorrow! Regards Tony Sleep http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film scanner info & comparisons ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
