Best Digital scanner?

[darrent]

Not sure if this belongs in the Computer section but I thought you guys should know your beans!

Ok looking for a scanner for around £150 - any good ones or ones to avoid??

General use plus occasional photos which might turn into lots of photos if I can be arsed!

Cheers

[pdV6]

Tricky.

"lots of photos" is a right pain in the ar$e with a flatbed scanner (been there, done that), but ones with a feeder are going to cost a bit more. Also, feeders that can handle non-A4 media I guess will be pricier still. Finally, would you trust your precious original prints to a mechanical feeder?

So, if you're sticking to a "manual" flatbed, there's loads to choose from.

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[rich 36]

Are any available on market built strongly enough, to support say a human body?

[nick francis]

Epson Expression 1680 PRO is the one to get, mine cost £750 last March from Dabs.
It will scan every format media and I particularly like the tranparency adapter which will take 15 slides at once.
Each one with a different file name
Im currently working through a very very large slide collection


>> Edited by nick francis on Monday 22 November 10:00

[smp]

Have a look at the Canon range.

The photo scanning is quite clever in that you can put 3 or 4 6*4s on the glass and the scanner software recognises that they are seperate images and saves them as such, instead of 1 A4 image containing 4 images that then need to be split up in Photoshop etc.

They range from about £50 to £250ish.