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EPSON F-3200 Film Scanner: Millennium Dome

Category: Other

by Sergey Samarin

[ 06/16/2005 | 09:47 AM ]

According to the company’s official press releases EPSON F-3200 Film Scanner is targeted for “professionals and photo-enthusiasts”. We decided to take a closer look at the digitizing quality and performance of this device to see if it will please the experienced and demanding professional users.

Table of contents:

• Technical Characteristics
  
• Accessories
  
• Functionality
  
• Software
  
• Testbed and Methods
  
• Speed Characteristics
  
• Image Noise
  
• Random Noise
  
• Correlated noise
  
• Profiling
  
• Digitizing Quality
  
• Conclusion
  

The Millennium Dome is a huge construction that had been built to meet the new millennium in London. It is dedicated to the achievements of human mind in science and technology. I found another Millennium Dome in a new multi-format specialized slide-scanner EPSON F-3200 which had been announced at the end of the last year at Photokina.

And even though the new product, according to the press release, is targeted at experienced photographers and professionals, I think it will suit excellently for people who don’t know much about scanning but do have a large archive of shot film.

In fact, the scanning process is automated so thoroughly here that all you have to do is put the originals into appropriate holders.

An interesting feature, the scanner can send scanned images directly to a photo-printer or write them to a memory card, besides saving them on the computer. This functionality as well as the impeccable looks became a strong argument for the F-3200 to be enrolled into the list of our test subjects.

EPSON F-3200 Film Scanner