A number of us are very happy with our Polaroid film scanners. They
were made by Microtek who does not support them, but a used Microtek
should be very good. Nice, nonLED scanners.
VueScan is a very capable scanning driver with kind of an obtuse and
unattractive interface. Nice thing about it besides how powerful it
is, is that you only have to learn it once and can keep transferring
it to your next scanner. The guy who writes it is amazingly
responsive and you see stories from time to time of people who
contacted him with a complaint or suggestion and a new version with
the correction issued the next day.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Jun 13, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm currently in the market for a film scanner. At the moment,
> I'm looking
> into getting a second-hand Minolta dImage Scan Dual III, a Nikon
> Coolscan
> LS-2000 or a Nikon Coolscan IV ED.
>
> Does anyone here own or use any of these scanners? What are your
> opinions
> on it?
>
> I'm really only interested in something that has better scan
> quality than
> my Epson Perfection 2400 Photo (which is a great little flatbed,
> but for
> negative scanning it's a bit poor - focus is dire, and you lose a
> lot of
> detail). Resolution-wise, 2900dpi or thereabouts would be fine.
> Feel free to
> make any other suggestions, but my price limit is (at the absolute
> most) £200
> so don't go suggesting a Minolta dImage Elite 5400 or anything like
> that. I'm
> working off a student budget so don't really have much to spend.
>
> Interface-wise, USB would be great, but SCSI is OK too assuming
> I can get a
> cheapish SCSI card for it.
>
> If anyone on-list is selling a scanner broadly similar to the
> ones I've
> mentioned, please let me know offlist. I'd prefer to buy from
> someone in
> Europe, if only because the nice folks at HM Customs and Excise
> have been
> getting better at picking out expensive items and charging VAT
> accordingly (I
> have no problem with paying VAT, what I object to is the obscene
> 'handling fee').
>
> I'm also toying with the idea of buying a copy of Hamrick
> Software's
> "Vuescan" scanner driver. I've read a few reviews and played with
> the demo,
> but I'd like to hear from people who use it. Do you think it's
> worth the
> money? Is it better (in terms of scan quality and accuracy) than
> the driver
> that came with your scanner? What scanner are you using with it?
>
> Thanks.
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