[LargeFormat] Scanners revisited.
Brock Nanson
largeformat@f32.net
Sat Jan 19 17:32:42 2002
At the risk of fanning the flames, but moving it back to photography...
Corel PhotoPaint is FREE if you run Linux. The GIMP is incredibly close to
Photoshop - again, no cost. And of course Linux can be downloaded at no
charge. Doesn't crash either, uptimes of a year are not uncommon - only
mean you haven't had a power failure or upgraded the hardware.
Scanners!!! Was it here I saw a few comments about a Canon scanner that
would do large format transparencies *well*? I think it must be time for me
to invest in a scanner so I can finally get some images to Clive for my
page! I don't want to sacrifice the ability to scan 35mm slides at a decent
resolution... a 25MB file for 35mm would be what I want. The Photosmart
unit I have (the original) really hurts in the shadow areas - so much so
that I just don't use it. And of course it doesn't do anything larger than
35mm.
I could probably find some archives and find the model number, but what I
really want to know is if the honeymoon is over! Would people still
recommend this unit? 4x5 is as large as I can see myself going...
Brock