Originally Posted by
pmozell
A couple of years ago I did a comparison of the new Epson 4870, and Microtek i900, and threw in the Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 to shake things up a bit. This was for an article I wrote for a consumer photo magazine. I found that the biggest differences were in the d-Min. The Epson and the Polaroid results were roughly comparable. I was very disappointed in the test from the Microtek which yielded surprisingly blocked up blacks. Mind you, they were not expecially noisy to my eye, rather the definition in shadow areas was poor, compared to the other scanners.