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I'd recommend you buy them.

I did exactly the same five years ago - £240 for one 'working' and one 'broken' Scanmate 5000, with four drums in varying condition. I couldn't test either machine so...

Danny, have you found a supplier in the UK then?

I've tried both with and without overlay. Without is quicker (for a single sheet), simpler and very slightly sharper in my experience. However if...

Paine is pronounced Pie-knee, so pain puns are a touch forced.

When I was in Patagonia my favourite images mainly came from lenses toward the normal range, or slightly longer. I did get plenty of...

I've no experience myself, but a friend Henry Iddon has recently been working on a similar project with the camera used by the Abraham brothers of Keswick. I'm sure he'd be keen to help.

His...

Hi QT, I'm in the Uk and my copy arrived last week. Incredible work, I will enjoy dipping into this for years. Thanks.

PS the other place to ask might be high end scanner group on yahoo: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ScanHi-End/info

PPS Some info on software at least on Tim's site here:...

I bought a couple of Scanmate 5000s a few years back, so might be able to offer some perspective.

At this point in time I would expect any drum scanner without an associated PC, cards, cables and...

Lovely stuff Preston. The sense of depth and soft light on the mountain peaks is really nice. Dawn?

I spent a couple of days there on our honeymoon but not with a serious camera. Would love to go...

I shoot on LF with 4x5 and 67 (super rollex) as well as 645 and DX Nikon digicams. I always found attempts to compare angles of view across formats a bit limited - things are rarely exactly...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Linotype-Hell-3300-scanner-/111567338013?pt=UK_Scanners&hash=item19f9ee7a1d

Bargain!!! How much room have you got Andy?

Yeah, it was on ebay. It was a bit of a gamble as the listing didn't have much detail and I couldn't test it. I figured at the price Tim charges for scans if I got 15 scans out of it it'd pay for...

Andy,

I had the same dilemma as you 18 months back. I've had a decent MF scanner for years (Nikon 8000) so have some experience of scanning. A mate locally did a few scans for me on his Epson....

I'm not sure if its behind the paywall or not, but Dave Parry wrote a great review of the F1 here;

https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2013/05/chamonix-045f1/

Have to agree, it seems amazingly good...

We did a similar trip on our honeymoon a few years back, though we took three weeks over it. We got round the accommodation problem by hiring a campervan, there are firms where you can pick up in SF...

Thanks Bob. No, it's not a huge problem but I made that middle 90mm shot last week and cropping that step in the headland out was definitely not my intention!

I've just been playing around with a...

Samples below. The problem doesn't affect most shots, these are the worst I've had.
65mm Super Angulon
http://adamlong.co.uk/images/AL-53.jpg
90mm Super Angulon...

Thanks for the advice chaps. I'll try to post some examples when I get home, a recent shot has prompted the post.

I'm in the UK. It's a TK, not TK s, bought second hand, no idea of age other than...

I've been shooting LF for about two and a half years with a Linhof Technikardan, mostly landscapes.

Is it normal to get stripes of overexposure around the margins of the frame? Seems worse on...

Simon, you might want to reconsider the drum option. A few months ago I had the same dilemma, then I picked up a Scanmate 4000 on ebay for under £250. The footprint is perhaps twice the size of the...

Ed, I was planning to run mine on an old Mac, as reading on the web seems to bring that up as the usual option. But having installed XP (as a dual-boot for testing) it worked perfectly, so I'm...

Good knowledge Chris, that chimes with my own tests on 8 bit LAB vs 16bit RGB.

Ed, just a thought but you might be running into as file size issue? I thinks its limited to ~2GB, which means for...

Hi Lars, thanks for the input.

Be keen to see some pictures of your mounting station, I've started the process of building one. Is it pretty close to the specs on your drawings on the other...

Hi Lars, thanks for the input.

Be keen to see some pictures of your mounting station, I've started the process of building one. Is it pretty close to the specs on your drawings on the other...

I'd be interested to hear about any other folk's workflows when scanning when using ColorQuartet/ Colortrio and Scanmate scanners.

I'm running a Scanmate 5000 via ColorQuartet 5 on Windows XP....

Ed, I'm in a similar situation but a couple of weeks ahead of you - I picked up a Scanmate 5000 on ebay UK a few weeks back. It didn't come with a computer so I spent a fair while reading around...