>>-----Original Message-----
>>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/
>At 10:03 AM 26/01/2006 +0000, Piers wrote:
>
>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
I gave Vuescan a try but the program annoyed me in various ways. No matter
what I did in the preferences the menus would not 'remember' the settings
and as a result I was continually fiddling with them. There was something
else even more annoying but I can't recall what it was right now.
The few test scans I did looked good but I didn't notice the shadow detail
difference - guess I never got that far into it! Maybe I should give
Vuescan another try...
Andrew McPhee
http://www.dev-stop-fix.com/
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