RE: Flatbed scanner transparency adapter?

Chris, There are several out put devices that will make RA4 prints in the
digital landscape and some use 150 dpi, 300, and 250. I believe it is the
Durst/Lamda that uses the 250 dpi input.

Eric Neilsen Photography
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christina Z. Anderson [mailto:zphoto@montana.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 7:04 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: 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 Sat Dec 20 11:00:13 2003