 | September 01, 2011 Breaking news from America's top photo magazines |   | |  | Stretch your gear budget as far as possible With autumn comes a fury of new photo-product announcements - and the traditional season for bargain hunting. Our editors have scoured the marketplace to come up with the seasons best deals, ranging in street-price from $7 to $850. Some are closeout models, some are brand new, but they all give you great value for your gear-buying buck. Happy shopping. READ MORE >> |
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 Be the first to hear about new stuff on PopPhoto.com by subscribing to our revamped RSS feed! | | | TECH SUPPORT Scan Plan Q. I have thousands of medium-format transparencies and an Epson Perfection 2400 flatbed scanner set up to scan them. However the scans are never sharp, no matter what. I am told that a special medium-format scanner is required to do a good job. True?
A. For starters, you could try using Adobe Photoshop’s Smart Sharpen or Unsharp Mask filters to counteract this loss of sharpness. You could also try a scanner with a higher resolution, such as Epson’s Perfection V600 Photo, with resolutions of 6400x9600, compared with the Perfection 2400’s 2400x4800.
But your problem could be more fundamental. Since flatbed scanners have a fixed focus point at the plane of the glass, there is always some loss of sharpness when scanning film. In the end, a medium-format film scanner will likely give you the best results, but good ones are expensive—well over $1,000. |
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