Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have the Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL scanner and am extremely pleased with it. With firewire on a computer with a good amount of memory, it flies through the files. Here is a comparison of a slide scanned on the flatbed with the same slide on a Nikon Coolscan 5000 (No sharpening applied) Pardon the explicit sexual nature of this shot. ;>D http://www.sonc.com/scan_compare.htm The dedicated slide scanner is sharper, but the Microtek might serve well even for production. It would be sharper even if you were scanning the film on the glass. I use it to scan 2 1/4 and 4x5 fairly often. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish In a message dated 11/12/2004 9:28:11 AM Central Standard Time, _r.s.taylor@comcast.net_ (mailto:r.s.taylor@comcast.net) writes: I have 40-plus years of slides and negatives I want to catalog on my iMac G5. My plan is to scan them as contact sheets in Photofile sleeves, catalog the images and then do proper scans of selected images for albums and display. The Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL looks like one of the few scanners available with a tabloid-sized platen. I plan on buying the transparency adapter with it. Do any of you have experience (good and bad) with this scanner that would help me decide if this is a good choice? Are there other options? Many thanks. -- Regards, Dick Boston MA