Hi David first welcome!
a lot of people seem to sell only slightly used scanners now on www.ebay.com for ex. or here in Switzerland I use www.ricardo.ch. I got an Epson 1240U Photo plus flatbed scanner with photo unit for $35 (was $200 new) nearly new in the last days and I am very pleased with the print scans, even negative scans look good at 1200 dpi averaged. Even the cheapest scanner would do the job, of course it may be loud and mechanically not well build then. My old SCSi scanner was better built, bit it is the scan result that counts at the end and at *that* price :-) It does take a lot of time to scan and you need plentiful hard disk space and a decent memory/cpu configuration to manipulate the pictures after the scan. ~12MB for a 35mm negative at 1200dpi, from 80-280MB for a scan of a printed photograph. You will not regret buying a flatbed scanner, if you already have a capable PC, there is some good freeware software to manipulate the scans too. greetings Markus >From: David Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 6:15 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: posting pictures (was new to the list) >Oh! I should have mentioned that the scans are a nice spiffy 18M. I was >certainly pleased with that resolution. >But! I shall investigate scanners! Certainly they will do well for the >web, which will allow me to put a few pictures up! >Thank you! >david
