Re: Help with Desktop film Scanner recomendations
Re: Help with Desktop film Scanner recomendations
- Subject: Re: Help with Desktop film Scanner recomendations
- From: glenn campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:56:07 -0700
imacon flextight photo! does everything you need except 6x9, it goes up
to 6x7...
you might be able to find a used one within your budget.
maybe look for a demo.
glenn campbell
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.
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