Ok, this question came from a cursory examination of the tags at Compusa and Bestbuy. Most of the tags on the scanners I saw had bullet points for resolutions in the neighborhood of 9600x9600, and all sported 48 bit color depth, some were in the $60-100, others were $300-500. I'm not pickey as to brand...
>>> pbatson68@yahoo.com 02/19/04 01:17PM >>>
You sure the res and color depth are the same? Sure
it's not a misprint?
Usually higher $$ scanners have higher color depth
(48bit vs. 30bit) Or they have the capability of
scanning at a really high resolution. Or they might
have a film scanner (negatives) built in. Or it might
have some kind of sheet feeder for multiple scanning.
Hard to tell exactly. What scanners are you looking
at? What are you going to be using it for?
Phil
--- BARRY OLIVER <DHSPA58@dhs.state.il.us> wrote:
>
> Can anyone explain in laymans terms the difference
> between a $80 color scanner and a $500 color
> sacnner, if the resolution and color depth are
> listed as being the same? Is there any instance
> where I would need a "better" scanner bad enough to
> justify the 3-5x pricetag? TIA.
>
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