Scanner Comparison 2019 [Epson Flatbed | Eversmart Flatbed | Drum Scanners]

[Steven Ruttenberg]

It is like crack, one time and your hooked! I almost started with 8x10, but chickened out at the size initially. Now, I think I am ready, 5x7 and 8x10, especially 8x10 for contact printing.

[Tin Can]

85% are not addictive personalities

15% ruin a lot of fun

It is like crack, one time and your hooked! I almost started with 8x10, but chickened out at the size initially. Now, I think I am ready, 5x7 and 8x10, especially 8x10 for contact printing.

[Steven Ruttenberg]

True and in reality I am not an addictive person. So much so, I had to take heart medicine and BP medicine a few years ago, and I got bored of taking them and stopped. Luckily I do not need them any more.

[Cameron Hamill]

I wonder if anyone would care to speculate as to possible scan quality of a Microtek ArtixScan 3200XL? I can hardly find any information on this scanner and I have only been able to find them for sale as brand new. Aside from the tri-wavelength LED and CYMK and LCH modes I'm wondering if there's a major difference with the MikroTek ScanMaker 1000XL Plus.

I realise there's a huge quality difference between these prosumer scanners such as the Epson Expression 12000XL and Creo IQSmarts and the Cezanne Screens.

I'm just interested in reading members opinions on these scanners.

[Pali K]

Sorry for the lack of updates everyone. Been tied up at work and I hope to resume my posts along with some new scans over the weekend. Hope everyone is staying warm in this frigid cold!

Pali

[alen]

Sorry for the lack of updates everyone. Been tied up at work and I hope to resume my posts along with some new scans over the weekend. Hope everyone is staying warm in this frigid cold!

Pali

Not a worry Pali, ive just discovered this thread so there plenty to sift through.
As a V800 user, ive never tried 6400dpi and usually topped out at 3200, but now I might give it a go!

[invisibleflash]

These test patterns are crazy priced. Here is one that looks good on eBay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Tiffen-DANE...v~E:rk:95:pf:0

Here are a couple more

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Set-of-Larg...KFM:rk:30:pf:0

They are large size 11 x 17. I happen to have an 11 x 17 scanner as well.

But I don't know if they are any good.

We should pool some $ and buy them to put up hi-res copies on the Internet Archive.

I'd chip in $15.

Edmonds prices are ridiculous.

Here are some test pattern I use for printing. But I could only find low res online.

https://archive.org/details/PrinterT....TeoliJr.A.C.2

[Tin Can]

Yes. Edmonds has some very good products.

It also sells this target i plan to buy. I like the size and price. Cheaper than your posts.


https://www.edmundoptics.com/f/resol...r-chart/11903/

[rdeloe]

If you want a legitimately free test chart designed for lens testing you could use this one: https://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~we...res-chart.html

It's based on the old standard and definitely is not a substitute for an actual ISO 12233:2014 chart, but for some purposes it gets the job done. I needed a consistent target when I was evaluating lenses for my APS-C tilt-shift setup, so I printed four and mounted them in a group in a semi-permanent location. This allowed me to make rough and ready apples-to-apples comparisons of how the lenses I was evaluating did under various amounts of shift.

[alen]

To me the EPSON requires a 2.5pix 50% sharpening radius to match a bit, and a little touch in the curves shaping in S.

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Thanks for the tip, that works well for me too in my scanning results! (Silverfast @6400dpi).
Prior to that I had more modest sharpening, 0.5pix 200%.