New Scanner coming

[Bob McCarthy]

In the recent View Camera article on scanners, the sidebar mentioned that Microtek was about to release a new scanner. I believe the article mentioned June.

Anyone have any news or insight on the new scanner.

Bob

[Bob McCarthy]

Can anyone correct the title, I hastly wrote printer and should have been scanner.

bob

[Ralph Barker]

tch, tch.

[Bob McCarthy]

Thanks, my bad.

bob

[Michael Mutmansky]

Bob,

No news yet on that scanner, I don't believe. I think it will be marketed towards the spot that the 1800f will be vacating. Beyond that, I don't think anything has been released publicly.

Ted will speak up as soon as information is released, I'm sure.


---Michael

[Ted Harris]

No announcements yet but the Microtek folks say there should be some news by the end of the month.

[Bob McCarthy]

Still nothing on the Microtek page. I was looking at the 1000XP, don't see much on the LF site regarding the scanner. Specs' are better than the 1800 and the price is well below the "super" scanners (i.e. creo, etc).

I've come back into LF photography after a 20 year absence. It appears to me the scanner is the key to the LF growing to a new level. I, for one, wish that Nikon would make a dedicated 4x5 scanner with the scanning quality of there smaller format scanners.

Oh well,
Bob

[Ralph Barker]

Bob - actually, Nikon did make a 4x5 film scanner, the 4500. But, it was dropped several years back. It wasn't cheap, though - about $10K, if memory serves.

[Capocheny]

It appears to me the scanner is the key to the LF growing to a new level. I, for one, wish that Nikon would make a dedicated 4x5 scanner with the scanning quality of there smaller format scanners.

Oh well,
Bob

FWIW, I agree with you entirely. For LF to grow, I think the scanner will be an important driving force. However, that said, there are lots of people out there doing LF in the most traditional ways possible... and printing their images in traditional methods. It seems they don't want to go the new, digital route. IMHO, to each their own!

Why stop at a 4x5 scanner?

Cheers

[Henry Ambrose]

Bob - actually, Nikon did make a 4x5 film scanner, the 4500. But, it was dropped several years back. It wasn't cheap, though - about $10K, if memory serves.

And ithe Nikon was an absolutely HORRID machine with worse software.

I'm thinking that as good as the sub $1000.00 flatbeds have become we may never see a great dedicated 4x5 film scanner.