Re: Flatbed scanner transparency adapter?

a flatbed vs. a true slide scanner or a drum scan. Am I going to be losing
anything here?
> Thanks,
> Dwayne

Hi Dwayne,
     For the purpose of gum, a flatbed scan is just fine. I am getting
everything that is on the neg in my gum print, and sometimes it looks so
sharp that it looks like a normal print. When I have thought that the
scanner was screwing up, upon taking a loupe to my neg, the screwup was on
the neg already. I don't know what price the scanner you are talking about
is, but the Epson 3200 is a charm. However, I had previously scanned stuff
on an $80 Microtek scanner from Costco and that worked OK enough, too, for
gum negs.
     I have been scanning stuff to print out on 20x30 inch Fuji Crystal
Archive prints, and you would not know they are digital negs. That is, from
an Epson 3200. I output it at 250 dpi to the service bureau, JPEG format,
because they downsize the print to 250 anyway, even though you'd think that
300 or 360 would be better.
Chris
Received on Thu Dec 18 19:11:04 2003