Re: [APML] Dedicated film/slide scanners

[astropix@att.net]

 Don...

     Since there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of offerings in this range, 
I'll second the Acer/BenQ ScanWit. They're 2700dpi, and have 48 bit support. 
I've had mine for over a year, and got the 48 bit driver from a download. BenQ 
fully supports the older Acer badged units... they've updated the drivers twice 
since I got mine. The price seems to have dropped since I got mine as well.

     The only drawback I've found is inadequate instruction documentation... 
the hard copy manual looks fancy, but tells you little... the help 
files/electronic manual isn't much better. This doesn't diminish the scanner's 
capability... they spent the money on hardware/software, not technical writing. 
If one has previous experience with film scanners, you should be up to speed 
quickly with this unit. If, like me, this is your first dedicated film 
scanner... it can take some time to figure it out. A British user has posted a 
great web-page review/tutorial on the use of this scanner... in fact, I believe 
BenQ now links to this page from their ScanWit pages! See ------------------->

     http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Review.htm

     There's also a ScanWit users group on Yahoo!... the more I use mine, the 
better I like it... lately I've been getting some really great scans, near 
perfect histograms... just by working the Curves and Levels in the scanner 
driver! In addition to Thom and myself, Herm Perez uses one of these scanners 
as well... there's probably others here on APML using them, too. Their 35mm 
only limitation, combined with scant advertising leaves them often overlooked 
by many serious film enthusiasts. These scanners are over-achievers, in my book!

 FWIW...

 Geoff

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