Hewlett Packard (HP) has come up with two new scanners, Scanjet G4010 and the G4050, for the restoration of photographs and the digitalization of negative as well as slides, by splitting the image into six colors (red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, and blue) with each color is sampled at 16 bits per pixel that presents a 96-bit image featuring a resolution of 4800 x 9600 dpi.
Featuring four simple different buttons for Scan, Scan Film, Copy, and Scan to PDF, both the scanners comes with latest Adaptive Sharpening algorithm and advanced dust and scratch removal technologies. The latest scanners can:
• Scan stacks of film easily by exercising a built-in adapter that holds up to sixteen 35mm slides or thirty 35mm negative frames side by side.
• Can scan up to four 10×15-cm (4×6-inch) photos speedily and automatically save them as individual files even without the need to crop and resize.
• Apart from scanning photos, documents or film, the latest scanners even can scan to PDF.
• Capable in producing high quality scans of various paper sizes and 3-D objects with a letter-size, portrait-oriented scanning bed and adjustable lid as well.
• Organize, edit, share and save scans with HP Photosmart software and HP Photosmart Share.
• Optimized to scan legacy Kodachrome and Ektachrome slide film.
• Will support Windows Vista in 2007 after Vista becomes available.
As far as the G4010 is concerned, it will be available for £129, whereas the G4050 will retail for about £200.
Via: pocket-lint
