Agfa Snapscan e20 review
Verdict:
Superb colours and sharp detail, though at top resolution the results were unuseable.
Review Date: 1 Feb 2001
Price when reviewed: (£81)
Reviewed By: Ben Pitt
Our Rating
Despite a selection of iMac-style handles, the Agfa still looks like a fairly boring scanner.
Ease of use
The Agfa's driver goes all-out for the handholding approach.
Resolution is automatically selected on the basis of the source type detected. Changing this setting requires delving through the menu. But most frustrating is the automated framing. It works fine for a single image, but on previewing a page of mixed text and graphics for OCR, it picked out eleven separate selections that had to be deleted one by one.
Image
For colour accuracy, it's the best of the bunch. However, focus at 1,200dpi was easily the most jagged here. It seems that Agfa's interpolation actually makes matters worse rather than better. That said, at 600dpi the results are superb.
Overall
On balance, not perfect - but as long you don't try scanning above 600dpi, you won't go far wrong with this one.
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