Comparing scanners
Yesterday I placed an order on Dabs.com for a rather sleek (rather pricey) Canon CanoScan 9900F scanner. And, great chaps that they are at Dabs, it turned up on my doorstep this morning.
The scanner is a replacement for my HP Scanjet IIc, which has seen some great service but at approximately 12 years old is probably somewhat past it now. The photo below is what prompted me to spend the money - the one on the left, although it looks punchier (i.e. more contrasty) has absolutely no detail whatsoever in the hair (for that is what’s covering the towery thing). The one on the right (scanned using out-of-the-box settings), although it looks a bit bland at the moment, has all the fine detail needed for a good bout of sexing up.
In fact, you can see just how out the colours on the HP machine were by the scans further below, which are just of the blank scanner platen with no image in it.
Old scanner (left), New scanner (right)
