I'm just wondering which scanner product is the best in the world?

Does anyone know??

By which company??

thx

(simply asking...)

what will be you scanning? Legal sized? Film Negatives? Standard 8.5x11 sheets? Do you need an ADF?
To put it simply, you should evaluate what you will or potentially be doing with the scanner and work from there.

Actually, i'm thinking about extremly high quality scanning of the cd cover....

But it'll be much useful if you can tell me film negatives scanner as well..

BTW, does anyone have some experience or study in microfilm photographing technology and devices??


Thanks a lot..

I recommend against the HP Printer/Scanner/Copier 500, which I own, since it's been quite a pain to get it's scanning to operate properly in Windows2000. This is entirely a driver issue, and therefore probably not a problem with newer PSC models.

Instead I've been using a very inexpensive Artec e+ 48U, which suffers from having little to no support from it's manufacturer. Nevertheless, it's drivers work in 2000 perfectly, and the image quality is impressive for the money. My dead French philosopher avatar was scanned on this unit and resized with PShop.

Were I to order a scanner today I would probably buy a Canon, since Canon's products tend to be high quality and generally a good value (the CanoScan LiDE 20 USB is a Consumer Reports "best buy" I believe). Unfortunately I have no firsthand experience with modern Canon scanners.

Your best bet for CD covers (at least the disc) is a digital camera - most scanners will record the reflected scanning light and give you a rainbow image on the CD. You should take the photo with no flash.

For scanning the artwork - any modern scanner will do. The point is what resolution/size do you need for the artwork. Most people scan at 300 or 600 dpi, my Epson Perfection 1260 can do (1200X1200 optically) and if I save as uncompressed it would be several MBs! - The covers would be larger than all the mp3s so you have to decide what to scan at but a $99 vs $500 scanner for CD art will give you almost identical results.

For negative scanners - depends on whether you want to spend $10000 for a drum scanner, $1000 - Nikon coolscan 5000, Minolta 5400 are both good, $500 - Nikon coolscan 4000, etc

What type of microfilm? Did Q not give you the lastest gadgets?

First of all, i want to ask a thing about making the photo of the CD covers.
What kind of material should i use as the background while i'm taking the photo of the CD cover?

Is it some kind of cloth?
Actually, I'm not so good in photography.
Are there e-books or books talking about this??

Actually, what i've been trying to do is to save the information of a record.
To photograph the cover of the CD, and to scan the artwork pages by pages, and then grab the track from the cd and convert it in to Flac with the best quality.

Are there any organizations doing this.
I've asked UNESCO about preserving the music records, and their response is they have a group doing it, but their webpages are too complex for me to find the group ones.
Are there any others?

As for the microfilms, i want to find the one that photograph the pages of books and pictures.
Are there any books or websites talking about this?


Thanks a lot.