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[tygati]

Rawr. 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

Comments

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Seems pretty fly to me for a personal scanner. I mean you were dying for something that could do legal, the specs are pretty sound for the price. I'm not certain why anyone would use a flatbed scanner for film, but apparently it does that too (Or text, for that matter, if they scan text regularly. that's what my shiney shiney document feeders are for)

I like it, and having listened to all your complaints, it does sound like what you've wanted.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Oh hey, you are alive. ^^;

You are rather the scanning queen, aren't you? ^^ Even if you're one of those crazy document scanners. ;) It does look like it's exactly what I'm after... *pokes bankbook* Hmmm....

[maderr.livejournal.com]

I wish I could do more interesting stuff x.x I liked college, I got to scan really old slides and stuff.

I was hanging around to see what you thought of story, and I have one or two more parts to send you, if you read what you've already got.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

Heh. My grandfather has some really old slides for you to scan... ^.~

Why are you not on AIM where I can properly squee at you? >.>

[maderr.livejournal.com]

*blink* I am.

[chilayse.livejournal.com]

Honestly? I've used the same little $70 canon for 9 years with no issues other than the age makes it hard to install on Vista.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

My favorite scanner was a dinosaur that only worked in DOS. Sadly, DOS is obsolete. x.x And my newer ones either quit working, or suck donkey balls. :P I draw in very light pencil, and the POS I've been working with for the last few years can't see my pencil lines half the time. x.x

[stoplightgodess.livejournal.com]

That was actually my initial problem with scanning. So I just decided to take digital photos and upload the photos to computer. But that requires me to do all fiddling on paper. Since I is the techno-retard of my little group of friends here in the states, I no can photoshop.
Well, I hope the scanner hunt goes well for you!

[tygati.livejournal.com]

If I was just posting stuff on the 'net, photos would not be a problem. But I need clean scans so that I can print them out to make postcards. :(

[camden-rehab.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that most newer scanners, even the really cheap ones, would be able to pick even very faint pencil lines. God knows mine does when I don't want it to. For university I'm probably just going to get a cheap scanner because I always mess about with the contrast and stuff in photoshop anyway. =/

[tygati.livejournal.com]

I don't know what's wrong with the one I had, but it's aggravated me for years by not being sensitive enough. I'd so take too sensitive over not enough anyday. ^^;

But thanks for the 2c. It's something to think about. :)

[silrini.livejournal.com]

I wish I had need for a scanner...because that would imply that I could draw. Which I can't. T__T It is my one great sadness. I can write, but I cannot draw. *sigh* Oh well.