![]() The film holders were well packed in polythene bags, which were a pain to open, sorry Mr Epson, the bags now look my dog has been chewing them. As this label covers the Firewire and USB ports you shouldn't miss it. The label at the rear tells you to install the scanner software before connecting to a computer. ![]() Unlocking is a simple matter of turning the lock 90' clockwise with a coin. The side label tells you to unlock the Transportation lock, this locks/unlocks the scanner's carriage which should be in the locked position when you unpack. At the side and on the rear there are two bright yellow caution stickers. This is a much better option as it hides both dust and fingerprints. The 48 both had a shinny black plastic surface, the 4990 has a smart matt silver surface. The scanner is securely packed and easy to remove from the packaging. Scanner software Disk (software contents may vary according to country).Power cord (will vary according to country.You've waited long enough for this review so lets get on with it! With an optical resolution of 4800 x 9600, the 4990 is one of Epson's most eagerly awaited items. Now we are spoilt and we have come to expect it as a standard fitting. Previously flatbed scanner transparency units were sold as an optional extra and could often cost as much as the scanner. The 4990 scanner is supplied complete with a Transparency Unit and film holders for film formats from 35mm to 5 x 4". We also use vuescan to save images 16bit as it comes way cheaper than full silverfast.The Epson Perfection 4990 follows in its predecessors footsteps by offering a higher resolution of 4800dpi, and has also raised the Dmax factor to 4.0, The scanner includes, multi format film scanning, DIGITAL ICE for both film and print scanning. This elliminates newtonian rings and also seems to be tiny bit sharper.īe curefull about the scanner glass - it is relatively easy to scratch. We scan emulsion down in custom frame holding the glass plate in approximately same distance as the negative film holders. I would say that Epson's scanner are excellent for this kind of task, I however have no experience with the significantly more expensive scanners, like creo. I've also tested Microtek i900, Umax powerlook III and Canonscan 9900 and the Epson results seemed the best - I can dig out crops in the case you are interested. We also consider updating to 4990 for larger negatives (4870 can handle 13x18, but not 18x24) and I expect the results to be the same - I will give it a try in a month or two when it arrives to local shops. Overexposed negatives are somewhat grainy (but reproducible) and the grain looks like it is actual film grain rather than scanner noise and very dynamic shots usually can be adjusted to nice reproductions too, so I tend to believe that there is not significantly more on the glass plate than what one get in the scanned file. This particular glass plate would probably benefit from even higher optical resolution, but it is really exception - overall wet process negatives are having better details then dry process ones.Ĭoncerning the density, it seems to be enought - for heavilly underexposed negatives it already shows dirt, glass and uneven emulsion. I printed that particular glass plate at full width of the Epson plotter (62cm?) and results are very good - you can barely see the texts visible in crop at that magnification. The bottom crop is full size 2400DPI scan. We are scannig thousdands of glass plates using Epson 4870 and results are very good - you can't expect 4800DPI resolution, but at 2400DPI and sharpening some glass plates expose amazingly great amount of detail - you can take a look at. Home! So, any info on the new Epson for scanning glass negs would be Money to buy a 10 year old scanner, that could fail 5 minutes after He upended a normal lightbox and sat on top of the Nikon,Īnd they came out reasonably good, but, no, i'm not parting with any Light was going weak in the transparency adaptor and he was makingĮxcuses. That he was demo'ing to me kept saying "too dark", but i'm just They (the negs) are "too dark" to come out any good. tranasparency adaptors on "modern scanners". "density" of the plate glass negs, I'll never get a good result with Nikon Scantouch AX-1200, and he was trying to tell me that with the Those? What did they turn out like? I had a guy trying to sell me an Give similar image quality anyone tried plate glass negs under one Negs, and what sort of results have they achieved. Plate glass negatives of various sizes (largest being size mentionedīut want to know if anyone on this group has used one for doing I'm thinking of buying one of these Epsons to digitise around ![]() I notice the new Epson 4990 will handle large negatives measuringĨ.5".
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