Listers, O to be able to buy goods at US prices, In Australia I purchased a 1650 for double this price 12 months ago in normal use I am happy with it. I just had a look at Epson site in Aust and they only have 1660 photo & 1670 photo. No price listed. This is away from what I wanted to put forward. With 1600 series at least the back light in the lid is max 60mm wide and is OK when scanning Slides and 35mm Film Negs. with the included Transparency Unit. But what if you have the older negs that are greater than the even smallish 90mm x 60mm negatives. To scan these you turn off the Thumbnail Preview and scan one at a time. I have found this very time consuming and at times very difficult to centre the negative. With silver side up locating it on the flat bed (I try to use a piece of glass to hold it in place) so as to scan the section of importance I also find to be very frustrating. These are also at original size, to look at any detail you are required to redo a preview. This requires marking the size and doing another Preview. Add this to the Preview speed, determined by the size of the Resolution. I try to preview at low Res and when scanning up grade the size of the resolution. Does anybody have any thoughts on this. Marshal Sydney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Battaglia" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 7:09 AM Subject: [SP] Re: Film & Slide Scanners > At 10:22 AM 2/14/2004, you wrote: > >Hello Bob > >I believe that responding privately defeats the purpose of the list. I > >for one, am glad to see people make their recommendations public. That is > >what helps get the conversations going > > Thanks for your thoughts. I have sent several private answers already, but > probably should have gone ahead and listed it here to start with. > So here it is: > > The model I have is an Epson Perfection 3170 Photo. I got it at Best Buy > for about $190. It scans documents, black & white negatives and 35mm color > slides. The software with it is great and it includes Adobe Elements > PhotoShop 2 - if you want to touch up. I really haven't used Adobe, the > slides came thru without need for touch-ups. There are other scanners on > the market, but this one works great and is priced right. You can read > more about it on the Epson Scanner site at > http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=35836301 > I also bought a 2.0 USB card with 3 plug-in slots since my computer came > with the 1.0 USB. It works either way, the 2.0 increases speed a little. > > I have been waiting for the Epson printer, R300. It is a six color printer > that says that it prints labels on "ink jet printable" CD's. Retail > is about $180. It is sold out all over the country. My order at > OfficeMax is 5 weeks old now. The Epson website store is also > out. Everyone is waiting for re-supply. Makes me wonder if there was a > problem with it and they are re-tooling something. Epson responded to my > email, stating they were just sold out and the retail outlets would get > re-suppy before the Epson on-line store. See at > http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=37472318 > > Hope this helps. These are my thoughts and not a commercial. > > > > >