[LargeFormat] Scanners revisited.

[Clive Warren]

At 2:29 pm -0800 19/1/02, Brock Nanson wrote:
>At the risk of fanning the flames, but moving it back to photography...
>
>Corel PhotoPaint is FREE if you run Linux.  The GIMP is incredibly close to
>Photoshop - again, no cost.  And of course Linux can be downloaded at no
>charge.  Doesn't crash either, uptimes of a year are not uncommon - only
>mean you haven't had a power failure or upgraded the hardware.
>
>Scanners!!!  Was it here I saw a few comments about a Canon scanner that
>would do large format transparencies *well*?  I think it must be time for me
>to invest in a scanner so I can finally get some images to Clive for my
>page!  I don't want to sacrifice the ability to scan 35mm slides at a decent
>resolution... a 25MB file for 35mm would be what I want.  The Photosmart
>unit I have (the original) really hurts in the shadow areas - so much so
>that I just don't use it.  And of course it doesn't do anything larger than
>35mm.
>
>I could probably find some archives and find the model number, but what I
>really want to know is if the honeymoon is over!  Would people still
>recommend this unit?  4x5 is as large as I can see myself going...


Brock - Linux and the Gimp running here on the sever next to the Mac. 
Uptime was about 8 months until we had a power cut!

I highly recommend the Microtek ScanMaker 4  - have just answered 
this question off the list!  It does up to and including 8x10 
trannies in a tray rather than from the glass top. If you look around 
you may still find one for a good price as they recently released a 
new model (loads more money) and to sell of the 4s they packaged them 
with SilverFast - probably one of the best pieces of scanning 
software available, including anything Open Source!

Cheers,
        Clive