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Last year's scanner bake-off was a runaway success, with almost 18,000

hits on the results page alone. It was based solely on scanner

resolution, measured scientifically with Norman Koren's Imatest

software. This year a panel of judges will rate the results on

sharpness, highlight/shadow accuracy, noise, as well as contrast,

saturation, and overall realism as compared to the original slide.

The subject will be a still life composition photographed with 35mm

equipment on Fuji Provia-F.

Participants must register before the February 28 deadline; final

results will be published in April.

Please visit http://www.jamesphotography.ca/ for details under

"scanner bake-off".

Thank you,

Jim Hutchison

Thanks for your well wishes... the camera is FAR from being under warrantee... I got it off eBay 3 years ago!

And this just after spending a whack of cash repairing my Mamiya.

...maybe I'll stay in bed tomorrow.

Good batteries, no corrosion... it looks like a mechanical problem.

The mirror moves up and down 1/4" at the top of it's range every time

I change something (press the shutter, change the shutter speed, turn

it off or on...)

Anyone seen this? I'm thinking a trip to the shop is due...

Thanks in advance.

Jim H.

http://www.jamesphotography.ca

Yes, it's too good to be true. I just got mine delivered (bought it on-line) yesterday, and have been spending HOURS trying to get a good scan. Seems that although the DPI is high, the optics fall short of delivering a crisp image to the CCD. The result is a less-than-perfect image.

I scanned a 120 chrome at the same resolution that I had done at a lab. The two images are incomparable. The scan from the lab is amazingly detailed and sharp, and have been able to get outstanding results printing an 8 x 10 on my Epson 820. Scanning positive and negative 35mm film strips yeilds worse results because of the smaller image size.

I did a 96, 300, 600, 1200, and 2400 DPI scan of a 120 chrome picturing an old gas pump, so there were letters and writing that had some good tack-sharp detail. Seems the optics on the scanner are only good up to 1200 DPI. After that, the image detail doesn't change - just the image size, occupying more disk real estate.

I've yet to talk to support at Microtek - that'll be my next step.

Hope this helps.

Jim.

Ps: this is my second 5900 - I had to return my first one because the lamp wouldn't budge (...yes I unlocked it...)<div></div>