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I have been offered an Imacon Flextight Precision II Scanner complete with a selection of holder including 35mm, 6x6 and 4x5
I understand they are quite old because it also comes with a SCSI card and I used to use SCSI back in the late 1980's.
Has anyone any experience with these scanners and especially how they perform against an Epson V800
I saw it perform better than v800 in 135 and 120
I use a Precision III scanner, which is pretty much the same thing as the one you are looking at. I have not compared it against an Epson, but can say that I like it a lot, and assume it is a superior machine. It is very easy to use (once you have it set up) and it does a very nice job. The largest prints I have made are 20x24—from 4x5 negatives— and they looked very nice. The scans are very sharp, with good highlight and shadow detail.
I use mine with an old Mac computer. Be aware that it requires a SCSI adapter, and I'm not sure they are still made. I use a Ratoc FR1SX, maybe your scanner comes with one?
I have one, and they are quite good. Very fast and yield sharp negatives.
You can get a SSCI to Firewire adapter, and then put a firewire card in your mac or pc. But be sure that the Firewire card has to be a powered card. Look for one on NewEgg (where I bought mine so many years ago. You can get additional film holders on E-Bay. The 4x5 holder cuts off the image area, so I had mine milled out and use a mylar sandwich to hold the negative.
Mike
The Mac OS needs to be an older version—I believe 10.6 is the latest supported by the scanner software.
we switched our Imocan from a Mac server to Windows , seems to work well for us.
Are the scans of 4x5 impressive
It's a good scanner. I don't know if it's impressive, but it's certainly better than the epson flatbeds. It isn't terribly quick though, you're looking at 15-20 min/scan and you have to run it on legacy equipment, so it's fiddly.