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Jul. 20th, 2008 06:35 pmRawr. Laymen irritate me. At least when they're writing product reviews.
I got my CF card for my new camera today and was playing around with it, trying to see if I could just photograph the postcard pictures so I could finally finish that project. Sadly, there's too much shadow to print right. *alas*
So I toddled off in search of a legal size flatbed scanner with some decent ratings. Ha. First off, everybody rates these suckers on how well they scan words. Took me a while to figure out I had to search for a 'graphics arts scanner' before I started finding the ones that were designed for photos... and still the reviewers were bitching about text! ARRGH. If you want to scan boring papers, get a document feeder. Stay the hell away from my image scanners. :P Same goes for the film scanning people. You want to scan film, get a scanner designed for that. Mattaku. -__-
And then there were a bunch of people who gave the one I was eying negative reviews - because the software was too technically advanced for them! *boggle* WTF? That's exactly what I want in a scanner! The ability to fine-tune everything so it scans perfect. Shouldn't that be a feature not a detraction? x.x Rawr.
This, by the way, is the scanner I'm eyeballing. Any thoughts?
Edit: Apparently the Epson Expression 10000XL is the preferred choice in the community, but $2,300 is a little out of my price range. :P
I got my CF card for my new camera today and was playing around with it, trying to see if I could just photograph the postcard pictures so I could finally finish that project. Sadly, there's too much shadow to print right. *alas*
So I toddled off in search of a legal size flatbed scanner with some decent ratings. Ha. First off, everybody rates these suckers on how well they scan words. Took me a while to figure out I had to search for a 'graphics arts scanner' before I started finding the ones that were designed for photos... and still the reviewers were bitching about text! ARRGH. If you want to scan boring papers, get a document feeder. Stay the hell away from my image scanners. :P Same goes for the film scanning people. You want to scan film, get a scanner designed for that. Mattaku. -__-
And then there were a bunch of people who gave the one I was eying negative reviews - because the software was too technically advanced for them! *boggle* WTF? That's exactly what I want in a scanner! The ability to fine-tune everything so it scans perfect. Shouldn't that be a feature not a detraction? x.x Rawr.
This, by the way, is the scanner I'm eyeballing. Any thoughts?
Edit: Apparently the Epson Expression 10000XL is the preferred choice in the community, but $2,300 is a little out of my price range. :P