Moose,
I've been thinking about picking up a Canon FS4000 and had a few questions
for you (or anyone else who has one). If I remember correctly, you're using
the SCSI connection, how much faster is it than the USB? Does Canon still
suport this scanner? Also, what file types, and size does it output? I ask
this because I'm planning to submit some images to Alamy, and want to be
sure it meets their requirements of minimum 48MB Tiff only.
TIA,
Darin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 11:17 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: More on Scanner's
> swisspace wrote:
>
>>How brave are you feeling, fancy posting some links to slides
>>(preferably kodachromes) you have posted stating which scanner you used
>>so I can do a full evaluation,
>>
> Alright, here are shots of from the two rolls of film I shot in Havasu
> Canyon in 1970. About half are Kodachrome and the rest are another
> chrome. See if you see any big difference that says one can be scanned
> ok and another not <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/Havasu/>.
>
> These were scanned a while ago on a Canon FS2710 at 2720 dpi, using
> VueScan. Looking at them now, I think I oversharpened some. Otherwise,
> they look pretty good to me. I've never understood the trouble I hear
> about scanning Kodachrome. I don't know whether I am particularly
> talented and/or lucky in my choice of hardware and software and my
> ability to use them. Whatever combo it may be, scanning various sorts of
> slides just doesn't make any real difference.
>
> Anybody know which is which in these samples? Interesting how things
> change in our lives. Back in 1970, I had a Nikon Ftn with a single lens,
> Nikkor 50/2. Film and processing were expensive, I only had one lens and
> the topography limited the angles of view, so I didn't take very many
> pictures. If I were to go there today for the same length of time, I
> can't imagine coming out with less than hundreds of images. I can
> particularly remember things I could see, and wanted to shoot, but that
> would just be too tiny on film. Not much later, the Nikon went for an
> OM-1, and the second lens was a 1002.8.
>
> Because these are pictures from a classic destination and a classic trip
> in my life, I've just rescanned them with the FS4000 at 4000 dpi. The
> lower falls changed dramatically a few years later when the big
> overhanging mineral deposits fell off. Pixel peeping, 4000 dpi clearly
> pulls a bit more detail out, but you wouldn't see the difference at
> anything less at least a 12x18 print. Other than that, color, contrast,
> etc. are quite comparable, as I would expect with successive models from
> the same maker.
>
> Most of these shots are in direct late May Arizona sunshine, so the
> subjects had a very wide range of brightness. Neither scanner seems to
> have any trouble capturing the full range that is on the film. I'm going
> to be doing some more playing, and may discover other differences, but I
> can already say they will be subtle.
>
> The IR channel of the Kodachromes does show more image detail than is
> usual with other slide films, as one would expect, but it doesn't seem
> to cause any trouble that I can see. Of course, I'm not using ICE or
> FARE, but whatever Ed puts in Vuescan, for dust removal.
>
> If these don't answer you questions, as regards one brand fof film
> scanner, perhaps you could be more specific about what kind of problems
> you are encountering.
>
> Moose
>
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