Recommendation for flatbaed scanner

[Jeff Hall]

A comment was made a post just below on getting just a low end scanner when work ing with small print sizes.

Can any one recommend a good low-end scanner for 4x5 negs/transparencies?

[David E. Rose]

I'm not sure what you consider low end, but if you can go $500, the Canan D2400U is a good choice. See the earlier postings on it for more info.

[john g]

I purchased an Acer 1200UT for about $150.00. It has a built in 5X7 transparency adapter. With 120 film it picks up the dots that make up the film description and frame #s. {ex. FUJI NPS160} Yes, those are made up with dots. It doesn't have the greatest DMAX range {what do you expect for $150} but does an excellent job and I wouldn't have regreted the purchase at 2-3 times the price.

[Scott Walton]

I've had the Microtek Scanmaker 4 at home for a few years and love it!

[Anthony J. Kohler]

I, too, have a Microtek Scanmaker 4, and I love it, just like Scott - but it's been discontinued. Some of the big retailers may still have stock. It'll scan any transparent media to 8x10 and reflective to 8x14. Works great for 4x5 and 8x10 both, in my experience.

[Mike Mahoney]

Jeff - I don't know your price range, but the UMax Astra e37400 is a 600x1200 which offers good results IF you can spend the time with the terrible twain software provided. The Dmax is poor, but at $100 you get PS 5.0 LE, and again if you've got time to scan, tweak, scan, tweak, scan, tweak a well exposed trannie, it's a good deal.

[David F. Stein]

If you going no larger than 4x5, and it is still available, I expect the Epson P erfection 1640 Photo at $400 is the best value, with 1600 x 3200 dpi and 42-bit output. Epson technical support is excellent in my experience, both in good tim es and bad.

[David F. Stein]

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