To add to Moose's useful observations (although I wish he hadn't
pointed out that some scanners don't need ICE by dint of their
optical design :>)), here are mine.
I bought a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual (2420dpi, SCSI with my Mac was
easy) in 99 and exchanged it for a Dimage Scan Elite F2900 (2800dpi)
late last year. My latest scanner has ICE and I use it most of the
time, rather than do the dust by hand. Minolta's interface is very
good, and I rarely use Vuescan but for a second opinion, as it were,
since it takes much longer to reach an image in Photoshop (Elements).
I have tried this "raw scan" business, by the way, and it seems
merely to be a TIFF file.
I too would have liked a higher res scanner, but I am sure that the
files would have been large enough to be a pain to manipulate.
Anyway, 2800dpi is good enough for 10x8s at 400dpi printing
resolution.
I store my image files on my hard drive in the first instance, then
transfer them to CD when I have enough files. I keep only the
web-sized files on my hard drive, for reference, cataloguing and use
on the Internet. I have a large hard drive (60Gb) but my back up
drive is only 20Gb, part of which I use as the Scratch disk for PS
Elements, so I am trying to maintain my hard drive use below about
15Gb...
I am about to buy an Epson 2450 for my 645 negs, if only the stock
would appear in GB.
Chris
p.s. for the Digest readers, please note that I have reduced the size
of my sig :>).cb.
At 14:21 -0700 4/5/02, dreammoose wrote:
I went through about a year ago, talked to others with various
solutions and did a lot of internet research. I ended up with a
CanoScan 2710, with VUESCAN.EXE to replace the bundled software and
have been very happy with it.
snip
What do I wish it had, now that I've lived with it?
- Faster scans. More $$
- Automated scanning of multiple images. More $$
- More dpi?? A lot more $$ for me. I would need a new computer;
Photoshop already gets slooow with the 2720dpi images, and 10 gigs
of hard drive are almost full..... I'm also not sure I'd see that
much difference in the actual prints?
Wish I oculd tell you more about other brand/models, but I only have the one.
Moose
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