Medium format scanner

[pierre]

I think the 3170 will be fine for me, but now I'm waiting. Prices of it and the 3200 are bound to fall with the introduction of the 4870.

 

[gr82bart]

I have the Epson 3200 Pro as well. Works fine. There is one problem though - dust. Buy lots of dust off.

Actually I'd like to know how others deal with getting rid of the dust?

Art

 

[glbeas]

Keep the cats out of the room, use an air purifier, and dust off. Also be careful what you wipe the glass with, some of those "lint free" wipes aren't!

 

[gr82bart]

LOL!

The other thing too, is ensure you configure your Epson 3200 to a decent profile like Adobe RGB. And you'll have to test your scanner a couple of times to get the right colour settings.

You can have different custom settings too for different types of film. Not a bad scanner at all.

Art.

 

[fil]

Just a quick note:

Pierre - if you have a PC, there are plenty of Firewire
addon cards for a PCI bus. Check www.newegg.com and type in "PCI firewire card" in the search box. You can pick one up for about $20. I'd hate to see you limit your choice of scanners.

One difference by the way between the Epson 3170 and the 3200/3200 pro is that the 3170 is NOT supported by Ed Hamrick's fabulous Vuescan scanning driver, whereas the 3200 is. (Ed says they used a weird command set and won't give out any details, so I'm not sure it will ever be supported.) Check www.hamrick.com for information about Vuescan - people over on Usenet in comp.periphs.scanners swear by it, and I do too.

Good luck.

 

[glbeas]

I got Vuescan, it's nice but couldn't figure any way to have it link up with PS like the Epson drivers are. I actually like the Epson driver better for that and other small reasons.

 

[bmac]

I'd personally hold off on Vuescan. I bought it, and wasnt very happy with it at all. Ended up downloading the latest version of Nikonscan (its a Nikon scanner) and using that. Vuescan isn't user friendly at all.

 

[removed account4]

i'd hold off on vuescan too. i know there are folks that swear by it, but it worked for me for 3 months, and stopped communicating with my scanner altogether.

 

[Ole]

I'm one of those who "swear by it" - I've used Vuescan for a few years now. Works just great with my AGFA Duoscan.

 

[Johnny V]

Here's an excellent tutorial on Vuescan:

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[Johnny V]

jnanian>i know there are folks that swear by it, but it worked for me for 3 months, and stopped communicating with my scanner altogether.

Same here but...I finally read the instructions and it turned out Vuescan stopped working after I installed an extra part of Epson's software. After I trashed the "Epson Scanner Monitor" Vuescan saw the scanner. I'm on a Mac...don't know what you are running.