Scanner technology continues to stall in 2013

Posted Jan. 2, 2013

Not much on scanners at Photokina 2012. And I do not expect to see too many flatbed scanners at PMA@CES 2013 in Las Vegas.

But we at FLAAR are alive and well and still using the great Scitex scanners, by far the best flatbed scanners made . If your original photos were with a Hasselblad or Leica, you don’t want to use a UMAX scanner to digitize your prize images.

If we find anything about scanner technology in 2013, we will be glad to report, but for the present, everyone is going to 3D scanning, and we have a separate web site on this, www.3d-scanners-3d-software-reviews.org.

And our digital photography DSLR review website, www.digital-photography.org is updated every month, primarily with new PDFs (we can show a lot more photographs in a PDF than we can on a single web page).

FLAAR Reports expands coverage in 2012

Not much new in flatbed scanners for the past several years, so we have added coverage of flatbed printers on our www.large-format-printers.org.

Plus we still cover giclee scanners on our www.FineArtGicleePrinters.org

FLAAR at Photokina 2010

Yes, FLAAR goes to Photokina every two years.

Three of us will be at Photokina 2010 in beautiful Cologne. Check out the Photokina 2010 exhibitor list.

Edgar Eduardo Sacayon, FLAAR photographer was selected among 60 of the best photographers in the world to present his work at Photokina 2010, one of the most important trade shows for the photographic industry.

We have added a new site to FLAAR Network:

3d-scanners-3d-software- reviews.org, where you find reviews and evaluations on reliable 3d laser equipment, laser scanners, both handheld and portable scanner, digitizer, for creating 3d models, 3d modeling, with reviews of 3d modeling software, metrology, including for reverse engineering, prototyping: the whole world of virtual 3d.

3D scanners now covered by this FLAAR review site

For 3D scanning we have reports on 3D body scanning (see FLAAR Reports) and on a really impressive 3D scanner from Dr Wirth Gravursysteme, 6to5. It was possible to spend an entire day at their impressive facilities in Frankfurt, Germany, as well as visit their booth several times at DRUPA 2008. We hope to do test scans using this equipment in the future so that we can expand our coverage.

But most of our 3D scanning evaluations are now on a separate 3D web site.

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Not many new flatbed scanners (at pro level)

The only new flatbed scanner we have seen in several years is a wide-format flatbed scanner from Contex, 18 x 24 inches. We are considering adding coverage of this model. This Contex COPYmate 18 scanner was shown at PMA 2006. Perhaps we will see this 18" Contex scanner again at Photokina 2010 in Cologne, Germany.

I also saw a scanner at a Japanese trade show early in 2010 (JapanShop). I do not remember this brand from many other trade shows. Hardly any scanner company exhibits their flatbed scanners any more.