Although I am a novice, I have considerable experience with the Sprintscan
4000, the Sprintscan 4000 Plus (what did they make, 3 of them) and the Nikon
4000ED. I had my choice which to keep and kept the Nikon, for two basic
reasons. The first, and lesser important, was ICE. I don't always use it,
but when I need it, there is nothing like it. The Sprintscan design is also
quite poor regarding dust -- it just sucks it in.
The biggest reason, though, is the roll film adapter. The Sprintscan
required so much effort to do a 36 exposure roll. The Nikon requires: Insert
strip. Click.
The results are too close to call. Both are better than my photography
skills.
As for storage, it's cheap, cheap, cheap. I have over a 1/2 terabyte in my
house. I'm close to crossing the terabyte boundary, as I need a couple more
large drives. Not only do I keep all images online (hard disk), I
automatically back them up to the server disk. I burn my favorites to CD.
Yes, CD. I'll go to DVD eventually, but with CD blanks being free (OfficeMax
this week, both 100 CD-R blanks and slim jewels cases, free with rebate),
DVD is still too expensive.
Tom
> To edit a 200M file in Photoshop either requires some fair computing
> power or a lot of patience. Storing a roll of slide scans eats up about
> 7G of space. Extra hard drives would disappear pretty fast. So far I'm
> using film as the storage medium and thinking about what can be done
> differently. (Any experienced suggestions?)
>
> Some very experienced people also prefer Spr*ntScan to either Min*lta or
> Ni*on. By the time most people could learn to use three different
> scanners near their capability, newer better stuff is available. I don't
> see much alternative to reading biased opinions to learn about the
> differences, then placing a fairly big bet on one. Hopefully I'll learn
> to use it well enough to get near what it is capable of but I'll settle
> for getting good ink jet prints and sending files to Calypso Imaging to
> get better prints.
>
> VueScan changes almost weekly. Even the manufacturers update their
> software. You could end up spending all of your time evaluating the
> scanner + software. I would probably be happy with any of the three that
> can handle medium format, each having different problems.
>
> -jeff
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