Well Matthew, you and I have about the same sort of luck then ;-).
I read in the latest Amateur Photographer that there is a new scanner
out, the Reflecta DgitDia 3600. It can scan at 3600 or 1800 ppi, has a
slide viewer with backlight and various other useful gizmos for
scanning slides. Its main claim to fame will be its slide magazine.
It looks a bit like a slide projector with a straight slide magazine so
you can scan a whole magazine of slides automatically.
It will cost £730 sterling, so that will be about $800 in the USA I
imagine ;-). I should think that its usefulness will be limited by the
RAM available on the host computer - until Ed Hamrick comes up with a
driver for it and then it will save the scans to disk.
Chris
On Friday, Aug 22, 2003, at 21:21 Europe/London, Matthew Born wrote:
For what it's worth, N*kon has a $200 rebate floating around on the
4000
right now. The folks on the N*kon digest are talking about its
replacement,
which is apparently in the pipeline. I have not paid particularly close
attention to any of the details since, I would imagine, lots of it is
speculation at this point, and I'm divesting myself of N*kon equipment.
Nonetheless, the rebate makes the 4000 a pretty good buy right now.
Rest
assured, however, should I buy one, the replacement will be cheaper,
scan at
12,000 dpi, have a dynamic range of about 9.6, communicate with any
computer
by telepathy (no cables), and having scanning times at max res (with
ICE and
about 12 passes) around 1 second. Oh, and it will include both Vuescan
and
SilverFast. And will do medium format.
Cheers,
Matthew Born
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