nicoimages wrote:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from London
rattymouse - glad that the Plustek 120 is working well for you. I had to return two units as I was unable to scan colour negative films in without yellow banding. It was a very sharp scanner otherwise.
Those are excellent looking scans! While the Nikon 9000 is a great scanner, I just could not trust something that old with that kind of money. I wish Nikon stayed in that market. A real loss for us.
I have a CS 5000 ED... Still going strong. Some folks wrote Windows drivers for it and I use the Nikon software. Silverfast and VueScan have drivers too. Great piece of kit, 24mp sensor...
kwoodard wrote:
I have a CS 5000 ED... Still going strong. Some folks wrote Windows drivers for it and I use the Nikon software. Silverfast and VueScan have drivers too. Great piece of kit, 24mp sensor...
I was just thinking about that. I wondered what mp ratings scanners might have. They are usually spec'ed out in dpi.
Also, scanners are still using CCD sensors. Why not CMOS?
rattymouse wrote:
Those are excellent looking scans! While the Nikon 9000 is a great scanner, I just could not trust something that old with that kind of money. I wish Nikon stayed in that market. A real loss for us.
You seem to be getting very good with the software - great looking Ektar scan there. I was so disappointed that the Plustek scanner did not workout for me as it was very good in any other sense. Do you find that you get odd yellow or magenta banding when scanning negatives - particularly if they are dense?
I worry about the Coolscan 9000 breaking down every time I use it. I have had a Coolscan 8000 fail on me already...
nicoimages wrote:
You seem to be getting very good with the software - great looking Ektar scan there. I was so disappointed that the Plustek scanner did not workout for me as it was very good in any other sense. Do you find that you get odd yellow or magenta banding when scanning negatives - particularly if they are dense?
I worry about the Coolscan 9000 breaking down every time I use it. I have had a Coolscan 8000 fail on me already...
I have seen no banding in any of my color scans. The big issue that I seem to have to deal with is a near constant need to adjust white balance. Once I do that, the colors look good. I'm not sure how normal that is as this is the first scanner I've ever owned and used. It doesnt matter if it is slide or negative film, I almost always have to adjust the white balance to get the image to look good. Not a huge hassle but not something that I expected that I would have to do.
Good luck with your Coolscan. I hope it lasts as long as possible for you.
rattymouse wrote:
I was just thinking about that. I wondered what mp ratings scanners might have. They are usually spec'ed out in dpi.
Also, scanners are still using CCD sensors. Why not CMOS?
I think the use of CCD sensors is cheaper than CMOS. The scanner hardware is able to work with the CCD sensor better than all the software that goes into CMOS chips. I think color is rendered better in CCD than CMOS.
To figure out mp from dpi... Take the vertical dpi and horizontal dpi and correlate it with the sensor dimension. Do some math and you can get the mp count.
kwoodard wrote:
I think the use of CCD sensors is cheaper than CMOS. The scanner hardware is able to work with the CCD sensor better than all the software that goes into CMOS chips. I think color is rendered better in CCD than CMOS.
To figure out mp from dpi... Take the vertical dpi and horizontal dpi and correlate it with the sensor dimension. Do some math and you can get the mp count.
Another great question....what size sensor does my Plustek 120 have? FF?
Your Plustek doesn't have a sensor size, per se, it has a maximum area that it can scan - 60mm x 120mm and a maximum resolution of 5300 pixels per inch using a 10,600 pixel CCD linear array. That array moves from one end of the defined scanning area to the other. A lens is used to focus the scanning area on to the CCD array. Kodak used to make an 8000 pixel CCD tri-linear array that was in the Nikon scanners, and I believe that that was a one inch long device. I'm assuming the Plustek is similar, but their web site doesn't go into that much detail.
Alpha_Geist wrote:
Whoa, that's creepy cool! I'm assuming they aren't for sale as pets?
Is for cooking...hehehe...I think they are common snakes in the rural area. Traditionally, in China, people prefer to cook with live food...live food means fresh food and retaining all of its essence...
