Buy an EPSON V600, VueScan and a reflective IT8.7/2 target and create a profile for a total of likr $300 and you'll get color accurate high quality borderline pro scans every time.
Or cheap out and buy a Canon LiDE 300 or 400 and get quicker, usable, but lower quality scans from a smaller more portable machine.
As this anon points out
>>4070913 these older looking bulky big boy machines are big because they're a completely different technology than the slim tiny little scanners. It's a CCD sensor vs CIS sensors. See pic related.
Better lighting, better depth of field, better colors, all in exchange for a tiny bit of distortion. Everything is seen through one lens on CCD sensors vs CIS machines having lots of lenses and different sensors in a line. If you're drawing CAD shit CIS can be nicer but for art CCD rules.
The V600 also has two light modes one where it will cancel out texture and one where it lights things from top to bottom giving you shadows over paper texture. Some people like the texture and many try and edit it out in post processing. It's nice to have a hardware based fix to remove it completely. Think they call it "show paper texture" in settings.
>>4069785A good camera requires more work to get a nice result. Basically a copy stand is needed and most scanners will produce better results with less effort and less cost. Cameras interpolate with a bayer filter scanners don't. So a 2000x2000 crop from a scan is 4 real megapixels vs a DSLR's blurred debayered shit.
