Storage, Scanning and Projecting 4x5

[larry_gaskill]

Question, I currently use primarily 6x6 I scan, store in mounted glass

slide mounts and project with a medium format projector

 

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1. How to store the 4x5 transparancies

2. Is there a projector that will allow 4x5 projection?

3. Scanning I know Nikon offers 4x5 imaging, is there any other

scanners that would do?

 

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Thanks

Larry

[wayne_campbell]

I believe the new Epson 1240U photo model, in addition to being a

regular scanner, scans negs and transparencies up to 4x5 with the

transparency adaptor. Cost is approx $29

[wayne_campbell]

--make that $299.00, not $29.00

[wayne_campbell]

Make that $299.....not $29 (at that price I'll take ten)...

[pete_andrews]

I'm seriously thinking of getting one of these Epson scanners.<br>A

while ago, I took a couple of 5x4 negs along to a local store and had

a quick demo of the perfection 1200 photo. I was impressed,

but not enough to buy it.<br>Epson have recently replaced the 1200

with the 1240 (42 bit colour as opposed to 36 bit on the 1200), but

now I see that there's a 1640 model out as well, at much the same

price. This has 1600dpi resolution and the sharpness is supposedly

improved, but it hasn't hit the shops yet, because the retailers want

to offload their old 1200 stocks.<br>Anyway, has anyone been able to

try this new 1640 on medium format and 5x4 yet?

[msitaraman]

There is only one slide projector at present that will do this, the

very expensive Noblux 4x5.

 

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http://www.whistlerinns.com/noblex/nobluxslide.htm

[howard_slavitt3]

For scanning, you should make sure your goals are clear as to what

you want out of a scanner. Why take a beautiful 4 x 5 and then scan

it on an under $1,000.00 (or under $5,000.00) scanner? Although the

cost quality equation with scanners is improving, scanners are

complicated machines with sophisticated software -- despite

the "specs" (which due to hype have become almost meaningless) you

will not get professional quality scans of 4 x 5 transparencies or

black and white negatives from a machine that's under $5,000.00, and

maybe not even at that price. I would look into the new

Microtek/Artix 4 x 5 scanner, that, last time I looked was selling

for about $6-7T. After that I would look at the Imacon's. If you

want top quality -- which I do -- you should probably just send you

great images to get scanned at West Coast Imaging for about $50.00

each for a 200 MB file. WCI does great work, IMO. NancyScans also

does excellent work, IMO.