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Deadlegs
Mar 18, 2005
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Now I am a little more savvy, I’ll rephrase my query.

What are photo retouchers, color correction professionals using for scanning colour and b&w photographs? What are the minimum resolution, bit depth and optical density values I should be looking for when purcahing a new scanner?

As mentioned in a previous post I do not necessarily need film or slide scanning as I already posess a CanoScan FS4000 US.

I am drawn to the Epson 4990 Hi Res Photo as, the 1680 is a litlle out of reach but it does come with the full verison of Silverfast Ai.
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Caitlin
Mar 19, 2005
"Deadlegs" wrote in message
Now I am a little more savvy, I’ll rephrase my query.

What are photo retouchers, color correction professionals using for scanning
colour and b&w photographs? What are the minimum resolution, bit depth and
optical density values I should be looking for when purcahing a new scanner?

As mentioned in a previous post I do not necessarily need film or slide scanning as I already posess a CanoScan FS4000 US.

I am drawn to the Epson 4990 Hi Res Photo as, the 1680 is a litlle out of reach but it does come with the full verison of Silverfast Ai.

Given that you have said that transparency scanning is not a requirement, I wonder if you are actually going to utilise the additional resolution offered by this scanner? There is no reason I can think of that you would ever want to scan a film print at these kinds of resolutions. Most of the 4990 professional features are really for the benefit of better slide/neg scanning. (I could be wrong – but I THINK DigitalICE also only works with transparencies?)
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Deadlegs
Mar 19, 2005
That’s what i am not sure about. I know that high resolution and bit depth are not necessarily going to give me more detail and in some instances might even soften the picture. Optical density seems to play an important part in the mix but I am unclear as to what it is. Can I get away with OD 3 or should I be looking for higher values?
If not the 4990 then which of the current models should I consider? "Caitlin" wrote in message
"Deadlegs" wrote in message
Now I am a little more savvy, I’ll rephrase my query.

What are photo retouchers, color correction professionals using for scanning
colour and b&w photographs? What are the minimum resolution, bit depth and
optical density values I should be looking for when purcahing a new scanner?

As mentioned in a previous post I do not necessarily need film or slide scanning as I already posess a CanoScan FS4000 US.

I am drawn to the Epson 4990 Hi Res Photo as, the 1680 is a litlle out of reach but it does come with the full verison of Silverfast Ai.

Given that you have said that transparency scanning is not a requirement, I wonder if you are actually going to utilise the additional resolution offered by this scanner? There is no reason I can think of that you would ever want to scan a film print at these kinds of resolutions. Most of the 4990 professional features are really for the benefit of better slide/neg scanning. (I could be wrong – but I THINK DigitalICE also only works with transparencies?)

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