[Leica] Plustek scanner

[ian.dudley at bigfoot.com (ian dudley)]

I think there was a review of this scanner in Amateur Photographer (UK) 
in the last 2 months. I seem to remember the conclusion was that the 
scanner offered fantastic value for money and performed well against 
more expensive rivals, except that it did not have the max density to 
be able to handle slide film.  I would check carefully before buying if 
you shoot a lot of slide film.

Ian

On Nov 28, 2004, at 04:28, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:33:35 +0100 (CET)
> From: Jean Louchet <jean.louchet@inria.fr>
> Subject: [Leica] Plustek scanner
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Cc: Jean Louchet <jean.louchet@inria.fr>
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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have an experience with the Plustek film scanner? On the 
> paper
> it shows interesting performance (7200x7200ppi non interpolated) for 
> about
> 190 Euros inc. VAT (should be about 200USD plus tax). It is described 
> as
> giving 16 bits per channel (48 bits per colour pixel) but this does not
> say what is the maximum density it is able to measure - which is 
> closely
> related to the noise level in dark (slides) or bright (negs) parts of 
> the
> images. Any comparison with the Canon, Nikon slide/neg scanners and the
> recent Epson high-res flatbed with adapter?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jean