Technical Characteristics

The following table lists the basic technical characteristics of the new scanner:

The scanner uses a color six-line CCD array that ensures an optical resolution of 3200dpi. The scanner’s mechanical resolution is 6400dpi thanks to the sub-scanning technology called Micro Step Drive. Since the F-3200 is first of all intended for scanning transparent originals, the maximum optical density is up to this purpose – 3.8Dmax. The device may connect to the computer via USB 2.0 or FireWire. Moreover, there’s a second USB connector on the scanner for connecting to a printer. This is a brief description, but I will dwell on some interesting points in the Functionality section.

Accessories

The colors of the box are EPSON’s corporate colors

You are going to find the following in the box:

• EPSON F-3200 Film Scanner
• 35mm film holder (2 stripes, 6 frames each)
• 35mm slides holder (8 frames)
• 120/220 film holder
• 2x5” film holder
• 10x15cm photographs holder
• One 16MB CompactFlash card for updating the firmware
• USB cable
• External power adapter
• Power cord
• CD with drivers and EPSON Scan software
• CD with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2
• The scanning program SilverFast Ai 6 with two calibration targets IT8.7
• A gadget for cleaning the scanner’s optics
• A multi-lingual Quick Start Guide
• Operation Guide

As you can see, this is a quite exhaustive kit. The only thing that’s probably missing is a FireWire cable. By the way, the FireWire interface of the F-3200 is intended for connection to Macs, the USB one being preferable for the PC (when working with the scanner I noticed that I could access its card-reader from the computer only via USB connection). But I’m running somewhat ahead. The functionality of this scanner model is described in the next section.