HP / Canon / Epson - Which one?

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I'm looking for a scanner that will do 8.5 x 11 as well as 35 MM slides.
I'm down to:

HP 4070 $130
Epson 2480 $100
Canon 4200F $100

I like the HP because it will do 4 slides at a time and it looks like the
slides are easy to insert.
I don't like the Canon because the slide mechanism looks a little whimpy and
hard to change slides.
The HP is a little lower resolution, but from what I hear 2400x2400 is more
than I'll ever need unless I want to blow up slides to over 8x10.

I have had good luck with HP in the past.

Any comments / opinions from people that have used any of these?
Any other suggestions?


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All of these are decent flat bed scanners.
None can scan 35mm with any sort of quality.
If you can afford to move up the Epson food chain a few notches the results
for scanning film will greatly impove . . .

 

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All these have pretty decent resolution. What is it that they don't do well?
What Epson do you recommend?

"bmoag" <apquilts@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:TwhJd.5629$8Z1.2091@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> All of these are decent flat bed scanners.
> None can scan 35mm with any sort of quality.
> If you can afford to move up the Epson food chain a few notches the
results
> for scanning film will greatly impove . . .
>
>

 

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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:17:01 -0600, "Skip Allison"
<cfad07@email.mot.com> wrote:

>All these have pretty decent resolution. What is it that they don't do well?
>What Epson do you recommend?
>
>"bmoag" <apquilts@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>news:TwhJd.5629$8Z1.2091@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
>> All of these are decent flat bed scanners.
>> None can scan 35mm with any sort of quality.
>> If you can afford to move up the Epson food chain a few notches the
>results
>> for scanning film will greatly impove . . .

There are a number of people that frequent this group that have much
disdain for those that use use flatbeds to scan slides. It is so
lower class.