Forgot to post this earlier. Most of my film pictures were taken with my Olympus Stylus Epic (Mu II) with datestamp enabled. In this camera, the datestamp is present as a series of "glowing"...

Hi, I want to scan some old B/W-photos for achival purposes. I know the rule of thumb that approx. twice the actual resolution of the print should be chosen as the scanning resolution. Do you have...

Every time I scan the blank lead-in area of a negative, I get a wide range of values. Depending on film type and camera used (auto everything vs. fixed everything :) ), the following image data...

or to put it more clearly, line drawing or text in B&W. I have only recently bought a 3490 and although it is a little fiddly compared to other scanners I have used I am getting the hang of it,...

According to the latest scientific and medical research our bodies are designed to be healthy and live until the age of 120 to 140 years old. It is our un-natural tendencies and lifestyles that have...

How do you rate these two different Infrared cleaning systems for scanners? Which is best? Which is quickest? What do you recommend? I'd be interested in the opinion of anyone with any of the Epson...

Previously my scanners have always scanned whatever is viewable within the glass area. I find, however with the perfection that it seems to scan nowhere near the edge of the glass and it becomes...

http://www.i-love-epson.co.jp/products/colorio/scanner/gtx900/index.htm More pictures of the scanner. -- Ernst Dinkla www.pigment-print.com ( unvollendet )

Software for the Epson 30000 doesn't seem to include a simple copy utility. Any other options for a copy utility?

I was trying out a friends new 4990 before buying one for myself. My first 2400 dpi 48 bit scan of a 4x5 was quite fast. I then turned on Digital Ice and it got very slow. That would not be so bad,...

All right, I took another look at what I've been doing and stripped it down to the minimum. No color conversion necessary, no extra layers. Also dug up enough info on how to go from Excel tables to...

I had to scan a matte print the other day, and it finally clicked that all the speckles weren't dust. :) I'm curious as to whether there's anything that can be done to the physical print to cut down...

My scanner can scan negatives or scans up to 2400, I have both the negatives and the prints of many pictures. Storage space and time are not issues. Any recommendations appreciated,

The issue with IR cleaning with Vuescan and the Minolta 5400 seems to have been fixed in the latest version (.28). -- Robert D Feinman Landscapes, Cityscapes and Panoramic...

I have the latest version of VueScan (8.3.30) and a new Canon MP800 all-in-one scanner/printer on a Windows XP Pro laptop. When I try to use Vuescan with the MP800, Vuescan hangs on startup until I...

Is the only difference between these the software package? That is my impression from reading the specs. P. Taine

I need a program to automatically process lots of scanned images (contrast and I don't know what...) like scanpreppro (I think, i haven't tried it) that unfortunatly works only under mac. I scan...

I recently got a 5000 ED and have been very pleased with the results for most things.... But it will not scan any of my Fuji Acros 100 films. All sorts of errors: program crashes, "no film...

I'm wondering if enough new scanning technology has emerged since last year to justify another scanner bake-off. Replies more than welcome... --jim h http://www.jamesphotography.ca

This message is driven more by bewilderment than anything else. I know that scanners have a lot of work to do but I can't explain why my scanner (and my previous one for that matter) is s-o-o-o...