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Cal Graham
I've been looking at scanners for a while now and these things are darn expensive! Me being a college student and all means I'm looking at the Epson 4490, Canon 8600f and the Plustek 7200.
The Epson 4490 seems to be the best compromise so far. I like the idea of scanning multiple negatives at once. The thing is there seems to be a lot of varying opinions on this scanner.
I am looking to scan B/W, C41 and C41 processed B/W(Kodak BW400CN). The images will mostly just be for personal use and displayed on the internet. I will be doing occasional prints, not likely larger than 4"x6". Will the 4490 deliver this?
Would the Canon or Plustek be worth the extra money; $55 and $89 respectively? The Plustek 7200 seems painfully slow if you turn on the dust/scratch removal stuff(40 minutes per frame!?) and it seems tedious to re-align each negative for scanning.
I'm spoiled with the Nikon Coolscan 4000's here at school but these won't be available for me over the summer and are very time consuming to use.
Thanks for your input.
The Epson 4490 seems to be the best compromise so far. I like the idea of scanning multiple negatives at once. The thing is there seems to be a lot of varying opinions on this scanner.
I am looking to scan B/W, C41 and C41 processed B/W(Kodak BW400CN). The images will mostly just be for personal use and displayed on the internet. I will be doing occasional prints, not likely larger than 4"x6". Will the 4490 deliver this?
Would the Canon or Plustek be worth the extra money; $55 and $89 respectively? The Plustek 7200 seems painfully slow if you turn on the dust/scratch removal stuff(40 minutes per frame!?) and it seems tedious to re-align each negative for scanning.
I'm spoiled with the Nikon Coolscan 4000's here at school but these won't be available for me over the summer and are very time consuming to use.
Thanks for your input.
JonR
Well-known
I can only comment on the Epson. I have had a Epson 4990 Photo which is very similar to the Epson you mention a couple of years and have scanned all my old negatives, positives and even glass-negatives and other odd negative formats with that one. All in all probably 15.000 scans.... Worked really well, easy to use and a good result. So I am sure the other scanners are good but I feel very sure you will not regret an Epson.
Jon
Jon