Re: Desktop film Scanner recommendations
Re: Desktop film Scanner recommendations
- Subject: Re: Desktop film Scanner recommendations
- From: Edward Kleinbard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 21:27:04 -0400
Glenn/Peter--
A small technical correction: the Imacon Flextight Photo will indeed go
up to 6X9, although you'll need to purchase an extra holder from Imacon.
One of the great pleasures of the Imacon over the Agfa T2500 is the
elegance of the Imacon flexible filmholders, when combined with its
"drum" scanning pathway that puts tension on the film: the filmholders
are much less "fiddly" than those of the Agfa, and the unique mechanism
does a good job keeping 6X9 film flat.
Edward Kleinbard
Message: 13
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:56:07 -0700
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From: glenn campbell <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Help with Desktop film Scanner recomendations
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Cc: email@hidden
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Reply-to: email@hidden
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imacon flextight photo! does everything you need except 6x9, it goes up
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to 6x7...
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you might be able to find a used one within your budget.
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maybe look for a demo.
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glenn campbell
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Peter Miles wrote:
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> Hi there fellow Color Sync Users, I am hoping you can help give
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> a color management perspective to choosing a good desktop
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> scanner.
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> Overview
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> I have been asked (at short notice) to recommend a medium format
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> film scanner for our photography department here at the college
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> of Design, Massey University. There is about $4500 (US) budgeted
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> Can You Help?
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> The scanner needs to Integrate well with an ICC workflow,
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> which were are in the process of establishing.
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> I was thinking that with all that color management horsepower
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> out there on this list that someone would be able to make some
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> recommendations.
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> Our Environment
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> Macs, mostly G4's and G3's networked with mac administrator. Us
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> photographers use Photoshop 6.0.
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> Our photography students output their work at commercial print
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> bureaus. (using Fuji frontier , Lambda, laser etc.)
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> Some Further details...
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> WE NEED
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> -The Scanner will be used to scan B&W, Slide and Color
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> Negative film
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> -Medium format film capability (Up to 6x9 cm).
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> -Good user interface. (The end users will be photography
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> students)
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> -The scanner needs to Integrate well with ICC workflow
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> -Reasonably robust.
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> WE WOULD LIKE
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> -Fast preview and scan time
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> -And reasonably hi res. (somewhere in the ball park of 18M+
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> RGB 8 bit files)
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> We Currently Use... (and some of my opinions of how they relate
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> to our colleges needs.)
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> Kodak RFS3570 film scanner
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> -This scanner is fast (a good thing!)
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> -But doesn't support ICC profiles, User interface is way too
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> simple.
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> -Robust!
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> -18M RGB files max. size a little small at times.
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> Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 35 mm film scanner
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> -This scanner is slow
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> -ICC profiles support and PolaColor Insight software is too
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> basic and not robust enough for our
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> environment.
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> -The scanner is possibly a bit delicate for our work
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> environment.
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> -But very good resolution in relation to our needs.
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> Agfa DuoScan's
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> -A bit slow
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> -User interface (Footlook3.5) is the best of scanner
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> software we currently use.
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> -Film scanning is a bit fiddly for our environment and not
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> as good as our dedicated film scanners.
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> (our students prefer using the kodak scanner.)
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> We Have On Evaluation...
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> Polaroid SprintScan 120
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> - lovely scanner but my initial reactions are the same
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> reservations as for the Polaroid SS4000.
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> -SilverFast software looks to be a bit better than
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> polaroid's, at first glance anyway.
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> Any suggestions and or opinions gratefully accepted.
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> Much thanks in advance.
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> Peter
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> --
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> Peter Miles
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> Photography Technician
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> Photography Dept
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> College of Fine Art, Design and Music
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> Massey University
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> Wellington
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> New Zealand.