The Doctor What wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I was hoping someone could recommend a good scanner for me.
>
> Background:
> I have a UMAX Astra 610 or 620 scsi. It's okay, but getting this
> thing to work with my Adaptech 2940UW is next to impossible (I've
> done it before, but it's always a pain). That is, I can't even get
> my system to boot reliably, forget loading linux. In the past, it
> locked up my system often under Linux, less ofter under Win9x.
>
> So I thought I'd get a USB scanner, since USB seems to be working
> well under Linux.
>
> I'm looking for one that I can do transparency scanning with, as I
> am rather sick of having my carefully adjusted photos (I tend to
> take 3 or 5 of them, each with different f-stops, etc) all color
> corrected into mediocraty.
>
> I'm not looking to print photos with my scans (yet), so I don't
> really need 2400dpi scanning, but more is better.
>
> I have $200 I can spend on the scanner, but I may (or may not) go
> higher.
>
> I was looking at the Epson Perfection 1240U photo and 1640SU photo
> based on the Epson sane driver page page.
I have a 1240U photo, but your not going to find it for $200. I think mine was about $300
with the transparency adapter. I think it's a very good scanner for its price.
It works very with Linux, after I made a timeout patch described on the sane driver page.
Definitely plug and play.
I often scan 35 mm negative film, and I think the results are good but not outstanding. I
use a resolution of 1800 dpi, but anything above 1200 is accomplished with interpolation
and therefore might want to be avoided. At these settings you have "mega-pixel" resolution.
The shortcoming is the optical density, although it's not bad (3.0 I think), a larger
dynamic range would really help. For scanning slides, it is even more critical. (I've only
scanned negatives).
I believe the 1640U has a higher optical density but I don't have direct experience with it.
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