jpk

I've got Sigma 17-70 for two months and I'm prety happy. It's less expensive than Canon 17-85, faster in terms of apreture, not AF of course, and has quite descent makro capabilities 1:2,3

And what is more important: the image quality is also quite OK.

The pcture:

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/3871/tulipan380322ty1tc.jpg

And the 100% crop:

http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/4495/tulipancrop8rh.jpg

JPK.

Hi, Bill.

Are you sure you want to buy an Olympus camera? I strongly reccomend to visit www.dpreview.com and compare pictures taken with E-1 and E-300 with some Canon 350D or D20 pictures especially at high ISO settings. IMHO Olympus sensors are useless at 400, while 350D has prcticaly no noise at 1600, and 20D gives you perfect shadows even at 3200.

Also read the in-depth review and compare the start up time, shot to shot delay and battery life.

And whatever your decision will be I wish you have a lot of fun taking pictures.

Jack.

That's almost impossible to me. I've got 2480 for about a year, and I've never faced this kind of problrm. In most cases when scanning slides I obtain quite acceptable results working in auto mode. Applaying some manual correction results in very good contrast, balance and saturation of the image, all I have to do with PS is cropping and sometimes sharpening.

BTW, scanning software by EPSON is very good IMHO. Actually I've found it much better than Vuescan - pre-scanning correction works definitely faster and is much more intuitional.

Jack.

Producer name does not matter at all. I examined HP, TDK, Ilford and found no difference (except price, of course). The most important things: use Premium Photo paper (surface is up to you) and set your printer driver in appropriate way accordingly to your paper. If you are in Europe you may try to find SYMBIO Photo Gloss, which has an exceptional quality and the lowest price I've ever seen. I pay about 10 Euro for 50 pcs A4, 180 g/m2.

Good shooting, and good printing.

Jack.

What about checking light source?

It looks as if it went dead...

Don't ask "how many shots". Onlly the first image is a SHOT, all

others are only parts of it so it isn't strange that all of them are

three degrees...

The questin was:

"Anyone tried one?"

This is at least third or may be fourth post concerning OpticFilm 7200. All answers are "probably", "I guess", "I think or I don't think".

I'll be happy and I think Vinny will be happy to if somebody answers:

"Yes, I have it and here are scans made to show you the quality of this device."

There are so many photo fans on this forum, how it is possible that nobody was ever able to try this scanner?

Jack.

Hi, Steven.

You are wrong. 2480 accepts 6 frame strip, you can scan 3 frames at the time.

2580 accepts 24 frame strip with auto loader. As it scans everything automatically you are not able to set individual parameters for each frame.

Hi, Eric

About a month ago I became a happy owner of 2480, which is basicly the same you are thinking about. The only differece is auto film loader, I've found some people who was disappointed with this device so I decided to buy the less expensive mode (actually I don't need it as I don't want to archive all my negs and slides, my main goal was to be able to see what exactly is on my neg before I decide what to print).

I'll try to attach two of my scans: one of them, the brick wall, is Fuji Superia 400, the boat is Provia 100 (I do it for the first time, so I'm not sure if I manage)

Maximum hardware resolution is 2400 and IMHO this gives you the best quality of your scans (talkin exclusively about 35 mm), I print it out using cheap HP 840C printer and the best possible paper, and results are almost impossible to distinguish from "wet" prints.

Scanning time is acceptable (at lest for me) - from about 20 seconds per frame in screen resolution to 2 minutes if your desired result is 2400 by 3600 picture which I've found optimal for printing.

Scanning A4 photos gives you much better results as sharpness is concerned.

Software wich comes with this device is pretty good. Easy to use in auto mode, giving maximum controll in professional mode. The only really bad thing is ABBYY OCR (just look at my thread a couple of days ago) which installs you unremovable shit called c-dilla, which is extremelly efficient in slowing down your machine...

So conclusion is that generally I'm quite satisfied but if I could turn back time I'd rather buy 3170 - 12 frames instead of 6 and larger transparency area making 120 film scanning possible.

Jack.<div></div>

I can add something I missed in the beggining: when you put CD into your machine it starts with the message:

"Please disable any antivirus software before continuing this installation"

I was stupid enough to do it...

BTW, thanks to epson, I hope I soon be able to upload some of my photos to forum gallery.

Greetins to all,

Jack.

Hi, all.

First off all I'm sorry for posting here this thread which is not

directly connected to photography, but I feel that this is the place

where I can get help.

Recently I bought an Epson 2480 Photo scanner. Software which came

with it (ABBYY OCR ver. 6) has infected my computer with a strange

thing named C-Dilla (folder on system disk). It starts cdac11ba.exe

service on my comp and is practically unremovable. So far I've learnt

that it modifies hard disk boot sector, and even formatting disk c:

doesn't help. I've also learnt that there is a special tool solving

this problem, but nobody can tell me where to find it.

I would appreciaite any advice,

Jack.