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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

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[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 Sadly, DOS is obsolete.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. :(