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Re: New Epson flatbed scanner...

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From: David J. Littleboy
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 02:24
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"Bart van der Wolf" <bvdwolf@no.spam> wrote:
>
> Not if the flat surface of the glass platen and a (hopefully flat) mounted 
> slide are concerned. The 0.75 mm (depending of the particular mount) 
> difference is already noticable on my 'ancient' Epson 2450 Photo. One can 
> only hope that the new 7xx models with their claimed resolution have focus 
> control.

One of the claims is that the film holders support two distances off the 
glass 0.5 mm apart.

>> and maybe a somewhat more limited light spectrum as compared to a 
>> photographic lens.
>
> There is only a restriction by the combined lamp / dye colors spectum, and 
> that spectrum seems to be quite wide if one considers the "Ektaspace" 
> profile chromaticities 
> (http://www.brucelindbloom.com/index.html?WorkingSpaceInfo.html).

Again, these things need to focus IR as well, so the requirement is more 
stringent than photographic lenses.

>> and a more sensitive CCD combined with brighter light sources could lead 
>> to a smaller aperture.
>
> Unfortunately, CCDs have a more or less fixed sensitivity.

The new scanner _claims_ to have microlenses for the first time in an Epson 
scanner.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan
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From: "David J. Littleboy" <davidjl@gol.com>
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Subject: Re: New Epson flatbed scanner...
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