Help with Desktop film Scanner recomendations
Help with Desktop film Scanner recomendations
- Subject: Help with Desktop film Scanner recomendations
- From: Peter Miles <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:16:55 +1200
- Organization: Massey University, New Zealand
Hi there fellow Color Sync Users, I am hoping you can help give
a color management perspective to choosing a good desktop
scanner.
Overview
I have been asked (at short notice) to recommend a medium format
film scanner for our photography department here at the college
of Design, Massey University. There is about $4500 (US) budgeted
Can You Help?
The scanner needs to Integrate well with an ICC workflow,
which were are in the process of establishing.
I was thinking that with all that color management horsepower
out there on this list that someone would be able to make some
recommendations.
Our Environment
Macs, mostly G4's and G3's networked with mac administrator. Us
photographers use Photoshop 6.0.
Our photography students output their work at commercial print
bureaus. (using Fuji frontier , Lambda, laser etc.)
Some Further details...
WE NEED
-The Scanner will be used to scan B&W, Slide and Color
Negative film
-Medium format film capability (Up to 6x9 cm).
-Good user interface. (The end users will be photography
students)
-The scanner needs to Integrate well with ICC workflow
-Reasonably robust.
WE WOULD LIKE
-Fast preview and scan time
-And reasonably hi res. (somewhere in the ball park of 18M+
RGB 8 bit files)
We Currently Use... (and some of my opinions of how they relate
to our colleges needs.)
Kodak RFS3570 film scanner
-This scanner is fast (a good thing!)
-But doesn't support ICC profiles, User interface is way too
simple.
-Robust!
-18M RGB files max. size a little small at times.
Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 35 mm film scanner
-This scanner is slow
-ICC profiles support and PolaColor Insight software is too
basic and not robust enough for our
environment.
-The scanner is possibly a bit delicate for our work
environment.
-But very good resolution in relation to our needs.
Agfa DuoScan's
-A bit slow
-User interface (Footlook3.5) is the best of scanner
software we currently use.
-Film scanning is a bit fiddly for our environment and not
as good as our dedicated film scanners.
(our students prefer using the kodak scanner.)
We Have On Evaluation...
Polaroid SprintScan 120
- lovely scanner but my initial reactions are the same
reservations as for the Polaroid SS4000.
-SilverFast software looks to be a bit better than
polaroid's, at first glance anyway.
Any suggestions and or opinions gratefully accepted.
Much thanks in advance.
Peter
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Peter Miles
Photography Technician
Photography Dept
College of Fine Art, Design and Music
Massey University
Wellington
New Zealand.