Microtek Is Back in N. America

[Preston]

Mickrotek has reentered the North American market with a limited set of scanners.

Here is the announcement

Here is a list of the available scanners, including the M-1 and M-1 Pro.

This is good news for the US folks!

-Preston

[Steven Barall]

Thanks for the post. Interesting.

[D. Bryant]

Mickrotek has reentered the North American market with a limited set of scanners.

Here is the announcement

Here is a list of the available scanners, including the M-1 and M-1 Pro.

This is good news for the US folks!

-Preston

Does anyone have any experience with the M1 Pro. I thought my old Agfa DuoScan had excellent IQ, better than Epson flatbeds so I wonder how the M1 Pro compares to the Epson V series.


David Brooks gave it a positive review in his 2008 Shutterbug write up.

http://www.shutterbug.net/equipmentr.../0708microtec/

Don Bryant

[venchka]

Email only tech support could be problematic.

[SW Rick]

Email only tech support could be problematic.

That plus we're here, now we're not here, now we're somewhat back- not terribly confidence-inspiring for the long term. Companies (hopefully) make decisions for sound business reasons, but here today and gone tomorrow seems to be the result.

[D. Bryant]

Does anyone have any experience with the M1 Pro. I thought my old Agfa DuoScan had excellent IQ, better than Epson flatbeds so I wonder how the M1 Pro compares to the Epson V series.


David Brooks gave it a positive review in his 2008 Shutterbug write up.

http://www.shutterbug.net/equipmentr.../0708microtec/

Don Bryant

There is at least 1 long thread here on the LFF covering the M1 Pro and I think the concensus is that it is a little better scanner than the Epson V series scanners, though some people reported mechanical problems with them. And as pointed out poor support from Microtek. Even so it's nice to have some competition for Epson.

I was thinking for a while that the M1 Pro was a completely new model - oh well.

Don

[mdd99]

I found the "announcement" confusing and if you read between the lines (or maybe the lines themselves), they're more oriented toward servicing businesses, not so much consumers. I'm just hoping my 1800f hangs in there a couple more years.

[Jeffrey Sipress]

I hope this decision to sell again in NA again means that they will be around, and not a sign that they are desperate or heading down in this economy because I'm thinking of buying one.

[Brian_A]

Email only tech support could be problematic.

Have you ever dealt with Epson's voice tech support? It's not wonderful.

[Eric Brody]

On the advice of experts, I purchased an 1800F for my 4x5 scanning a number of years ago and as a sample of one, it has worked well, it's solidly built and has the significant (?) advantage of having no glass in the scanning pathway as I believe does the M1. Were it to die, however, I am pretty sure I'd replace it with an Epson V7xx. An awful lot of photographers whose work I admire are happy with the Epson, it has a huge installed base and the company has been around and will likely be around for a while, at least in the printer business. I suspect there will not be a lot of hardware development in the scanner business. Film is becoming a niche marketplace.