Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Virtually everything you see on my website is a scan done with a Nikon LS-8000ED. I think it does fine for black and white, you just have to know how to use it, and a lot of people who have money to buy these do not have the talent. Look for an 8000ED, they're a lot cheaper used than the 9000. I've used the 9000 too, results not much different. Do make sure you get one of the glass neg carriers; the non-glass carriers that come with it are less than worthless and will NOT hold film flat. If the film is not 100% flat, the scans will not be sharp, the scanner has NO depth of field. This adds another $300 or so to the price, but its needed. The Minolta medium format scanners came with a glass carrier standard, Nikon made you pay extra. Are you doing 120 film or just 35? If just 35, the good 35mm scanners like the Nikon Coolscan V amd Coolscan 4000ED and 5000ED and the minolta Scan Elite are much cheaper and give just as good of scans -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-424-0897 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! On 4/21/10 8:38 PM, "James Laird" <digiratidoc at gmail.com> wrote: > I know this is an old topic (and was just touched on in the thread > about the Nikon 9000) but I just retired and now have time to do some > scanning of my collection. I don't want to spend thousands on a Nikon > 9000 (somebody have an old one they want to sell cheap? ;). What would > be a good fairly inexpensive scanner that would do the job. I've heard > good things about Nikon and Minolta scanners, but also heard some had > problems in the 'black and white' arena. Any advice would be > appreciated. > > Jim Laird > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information