Copy cam vs. Scanner
Posted on June 30, 2007
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Here’s a scan, a section of an 11×14-inch print done with a Canon Lide scanner. I can’t remember if I did any post-scan manipulation, but this strikes me as the quality you typically get from a decent (but not high-end) desktop scanner. Midtones are captured quite well, shadows are a little murky and highlights are (here, anyway) OK.
I should find this print and re-shoot it with the Lumix set up as a copy camera to see how quality differs. Most of my contemporaneous prints from the 70s are 11×14-inch Kodabromides, hence the need to scan or otherwise capture 11×14.
I have an 11×14 print scanner which delivers similar quality, but it is very slow, and has poor, old (win 2000 era) driver software for both Mac and Windows - and the manufacturer (if they’re still around) won’t release scanner firmware details, so it doesn’t even work with VueScan, the Swiss Army Knife of scanner software. That’s Samuel Arkoff, the ‘B’ movie king BTW… Yet more on copy vs. scanner TK…
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