Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: sperera on September 06, 2012, 05:55:44 am
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Anyone know anything about this scanner yet? thanks
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There's a fairly long thread over at rangefinderforums.com
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114288&page=24
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No wet scan ability.
Wetscan holds film flatter and hides surface problems much better.
Personally I think that the Epson v750 is a better all round scanner having wetscan ability as well as 4x5 and 8x10in coverage.
Here is a scan with the v750
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5180/5458121808_ea1138a838_o.jpg)
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well i guess/hope that photokina will give us some answers
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It's been in the works for quite a while and was pushed back several times. Looking like a release by the end of this month and will be operated by SilverFast software. This scanner looks like it has some nice features and is a direct competitor to the Nikon 9000. I really like the looks of the film frame where you can place the divider wherever the actual divide on the film frame is (with MF it varies a good amount). Plustek seems like a very good company, I've been in contact with them several times and have received prompt replies. I'll personally be checking this out as a possible replacement to my phenomenal (and at sometimes a bit quirky) Nikon 9000. With my 9000 I use the glass carrier and get great results. Wet mounting is not a concern for me at all. The Plustek doesn't have a focusing lens, though so it'll be interesting to see real world results or if it has enough depth of field to take a bit of curve in the film with stride.