Andrew
The only thing which has ever set me against the LS4000 is the cost.
In the UK it costs £1000sterling against 600 for the Canoscan FS4000
and 500 for the Minolta 5400 (which has a pretty decent dynamic range
by the way).
I believe that Tom Scales has a Nikon and the film strip attachment. I
wonder if, given that they make APS adaptors for them, the Minolta or
Canon scanners could take a 35mm strip adaptor. They can both take
mounted slides as well as negatives, of course.
Chris
On Sunday, Jul 27, 2003, at 21:25 Europe/London, Andrew Dacey wrote:
I'm starting to look into buying a new film scanner. Currently, I'm
using a
Canon FS2710 which I'm finding is pretty decent but I'm finding I'd
like to
have something better. In particular, something with a greater dynamic
range
for pulling out shadow detail would be really nice. Single-pass
multi-sampling would also be very handy. And finally, some ability to
batch
scan would be REALLY useful. I do shoot some medium format and 4x5 but
I'm
thinking of going for a dedicated 35mm scanner and then adding a good
flatbed in the future for scanning larger formats.
In terms of batch scanning, this would mostly be for mounted slides
but the
ability to batch scan cut strips of negs (4-6 frames) and or uncut film
strips (planning to start doing my own processing for B&W) would be
useful
as well.
In terms of OS and Interface, I'm currently using MacOS 9 and want to
use
firewire for the interface. I may be going to OS X in the near future
though.
I also use Vuescan for scanning right now and would like to be able to
continue using it.
Mostly I'm leaning towards the Nikon LS-4000 because I can get the
slide
loader and uncut film strip adapters for bulk scanning. Just wondering
if
there is a better solution given what I've outlined above?
Andrew "frugal" Dacey
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