The new Microtek flatbed scanner offers the high resolution and ICE dust-busting of its top i900 model but in a much more compact body that gets rid of the original dual ‘plates’ in favour of a conventional glass bed and illuminated hood.
Too good to be true? Sadly, yes. It’s a reasonably good print scanner, but its film-reading abilities aren’t a patch on a dedicated 35mm or medium format scanner.
While the resolution is enough for enlarging 35mm film frames up to A3 size and beyond, there’s more to image quality than resolution.
Over the past year, sales of high-end professional pre-press scanners in the £15,000 to £20,000 range have plummeted. The reason is the appearance of models ...
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ArtixScan 4500t is a film scanner for all
sizes up to 4-x-5 inches, with a maximum resolution of 2,500dpi. That’s enough to blow a 4-x-5-inch ...