[WEB4LIB:14733] Re: Slide or negative scanners

[NCM Ross]

Well, I don't know if dedicated slide scanner versus adapter
makes a difference or not, but resolution does.  The E3 has 300x600
dpi resolution, which might be generally too low for transparencies 
that are going to be enlarged much.  There is also the question of 
the color depth (24 bits or more) and of what software is being used. 
All of these things effect quality.

At the Hewlett Packard web site, it is possible to browse their
products and look at the specs.  They make both a scanner with
transparency adapter and scanners dedicated to transparency
scanning (you can't do prints on them).  We happened to need one 
that would do prints as well as slides. The higher resolution scanner/
adapter c
combinations can be got for under four figures, but not much, it looks
like.  


Nancy C. M. Ross


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On 8/5/98, at 1:29 PM, Mike Mitchell  wrote: 

>I did a bunch of slides at home with a Microtek E3 with the adapter. They
>turned out well if the negative was decent. Oddly enough, some of my best
>results were from slides at least 45 years old! It's a slow tedious
process
>though. I've heard that a dedicated slide scanner, though rather expensive
>(>$600), produces superior results and is much faster.
>
>Mike Mitchell
>Tech Services Librarian/System Administrator
>Dittlinger Memorial Library
>New Braunfels, TX 
>mdm at nbpl.lib.tx.us

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