[MacDV] Re: Scanning Photos

[Randy Wilson]

I have the Epson 2450, too.  It is very nice indeed--not the cheapest
one out there ($350 street price), but at the time I bought mine a
year ago it was the fastest one for scanning prints (under $1000
anyway)
that I could find.  (I did a poll on dealmac.com's forum and got a
bunch
of people to time their scanner, and the 2450 did a scan in 17 seconds
that was taking most scanners a minute or so to do).

I believe it is being replaced with the Epson 3200, which has even
higher resolution (3200 dpi instead of 2400 dpi), which will probably
be at the $400 price level for some time until it has been around
long enough for the price to drop.

--Randy

>>> ShirleyKat at cox.net 03/26/03 08:54PM >>>
A pretty good scanner I got recently is the Epson 2450. I got it 
because it can scan up to 4 x 5-inch negatives. While just about any 
scanner will scan an 8 x 10 acceptably for video, I mention this Epson

because you asked for a reasonably-priced high-quality scanner. 
Unfortunately, it has been discontinued and I'm not sure what the 
replacement it. The 2450 was $399, though Costco had it in December for

$50 less. You may still find it available in a few places.

The other decision you're going to face is how to handle the photos in

portrait orientation. If you don't crop into a 4 to 3 ratio, there will

be black bars on the left and right sides. I find that preferable to 
cropping sometimes.

Shirley



On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 05:08  PM, Aaron Kwinter wrote:

> I would like to scan some 8 x 10 photographs (both color and black
and
> white) so that I can put them into an imovie film that I am making.
Can
> someone recommend a high quality, reasonably priced scanner that will

> enable
> me to do this. Thanks
>
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