OT: Scanner recommendations

[calvindog]

Mark, thanks, I love that card. The scanned image always blows me away.

[docpatlv]

Jeff,

Did you have to adjust the settings at all or are those the default settings? That is one of the clearest scans I think I have ever seen. I may have to look into your Canon model when it's time to put my HP to rest.

Mike

[cfc1909]

I'm with Jeff, except mine is Canon 8600F. Seems to work great. Used it for my albums in my profile.

JR cfc1909

[calvindog]

Mike, those are the default settings. The only tweaking I do is to sharpen the scan a bit after I upload it to my flickr site. Unfortunately I don't know how to do much else with the scans. Here's another example from the Canon scanner:

[docpatlv]

Jeff,

I'm really impressed with how that Epson reproduces the color. I thought maybe it was just the Cobb, but the Jackson looks great too.

By the way, you didn't happen to win the Cobb Piedmont Art Stamp last night (Huggins and Scott)...I was the underbidder wondering if that might have been you that won it...Congrats if you did.

Mike

[calvindog]

Mike, my scanner is the Canon 8800F. And no, I didn't win that Cobb stamp -- not my fault!

[Matt]

Just to complete my comments above, attached is a scan of the same card from my new L7780 (just hooked up moments ago). As with the two scans I posted above, in the one on the left, I'm not using any sharpening or modification to the scan. Just for fun, for the one on the right, I sharpened and increased the color saturation of the image.

[DixieBaseball]

Jeff - I have always salivated at not only your cards, but the scans you put out seem to be the best of the best in my humble opinion. I have been needing to get a scanner for some time and after looking, again at the few scans you just put up, I have to go with the 8800F.

Is there anything about the Cannon you do not like ?

Thanks,

JJ