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I'm pretty sure, its from left to right:

Tristan 7500
Tim 4500
Ian Imacon
Tim V750
Joanna V750

Hi Tristan, Don Hutcheson offers a very similar process on his website as a PDF document with a photoshop action also included. I do a very similar thing with levels.Inverting the image first (to get the positive), then holding down the alt key to show the clipping in the levels and adjusting highli...

As the owner of the transparencies: In terms of colour balance on the Wild Garlic: 1-Ian 2-Tim -Howtek 3 - Tim - Epson 4 - Tristan 5 - Joanna Interms of shadow detail on the Wild Garlic: 1 - Tim Howtek (by about 5%) 2 - Ian 3 - Tristan 4 - Tim Epson 5 - Joanna There are 2 other transparencies 1 of A...

Really enjoying Joanna's scans in both normal & Tim's boosted shadows comparison. I feel like I've taken some LSD!

O.K. time for an update on our scanner testing! To bring you up to speed, I sent out 3 transparencies something dark, something light & something in-between. The most pertinent of which was the underexposed 5x4 a thumbnail of which is below: The full size JPEG Imacon scan can be downloaded here: htt...

For those that have been interested in this topic. We've finally got our results together & Tim Parkin is currently collating.

We'll be posting some comparisons very soon.

Best


Ian

Tim,

Can we get the transparencies to Joanna next please.

Unfortunately, since my original post here. I've had a talk with some Fuji reps & a couple of people in the industry. Definately no production of Quickload of any kind is happening at all, nada, zip. Fuji (God bless em) can't seem to organise a bloody tea party, all vendors can do is place an order,...

Joanna, Thanks for the PM reply. I want to keep this test to 1 transparency if I can, however looking at the examples above, I'm thinking 2 might possibly be a consideration. I don't want to prove a point by giving out a hugely underexposed tran. I'm looking for an image which has been exposed norma...

Well, as usual the post has gone off topic! :D My mate David Whistance has become a German Pornstar called David Meunch! Tim's pedalling 'is wares! and DJ is havin a session about inkjet printer resolution. On the subject of inkjet resolution, (this sounds like a really obvious thing to say) I've fo...

Sure Charles, lets do this. Tim/Joanna, if your in can you give me a PM/post on this topic. As reiterated in my original posting, this isn't about being better than one another. This is a collaboration, to see where these machines rank, and more importantly can the difference be noticed in a print. ...

This is all really great stuff, thanks for all your comments. I've got a proposal. If I hook out a tranny, can I send it to Tim (for your Howtek), AbsolutelyN (for your Howtek) & Joanna (for your V750 as your obviously well up to speed with getting the best from yours). I'll print the images, scan t...

Again, this is like night vs day. I can't believe people think they wouldn't notice this on an A3 size print. No amount of sharpening is going to bring out that complete lack of focus.

Thanks Tim.

AbsolutelyN, now thats what I'm talking about!

You can't tell me people aren't going to notice that in an A3 print?

Tim, your picture posts don't appear to have loaded properly to the forum, so we can't see em. Craig, yeah I did have it serviced annually initially. I now have it serviced every 15,000 scans on the recommendation of Hasselblad. They also showed me the engineer service menu, so I can keep an eye on ...