Pretty much the same experience here with the same scanner and the same
volume, type and age of slides, and the same remarkebly acceptable results,
Andrew. But I strongly recommend you do try VueScan - the shadow detail
using N*konScan is not good at all by comparison
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Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andrew McPhee
Sent: 25 January 2006 23:50
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Irritating question #183--Which scanner to get
I picked up a Nik*n FS 4000 ED film scanner on the 'bay a couple of months
back, it was as-new, had very little use and cost me approx. AU$800
(US$600). I've used it for slides and b&w neg and it's darned impressive.
More info at http://www.sphoto.com/techinfo/scs4000.html
Connection is by Firewire (PC card is supplied in the kit) and it also comes
with three media holders, two for film strips, one for mounted slides. An
optional bulk slide feeder is also available. It works with Vuescan
although I use the bundled N*konScan software.
I've been plugging away scanning old family slides, will eventually
distribute CDs to family members. Digital ICE does an amazing job on those
old slides removing embedded crud and fungal growth. Even though using it
on Kodachromes is not recommended I have found it works pretty well and
avoids spending hours using the clone tool later.
Andrew McPhee
http://www.dev-stop-fix.com/
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