Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/04

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Subject: [Leica] Slide Scanners
From: John Chapman <jc@designcs.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 22:23:40 +0000

Pascal,

Only by scanning at the highest resolution will you do justice to Leica
glass and for that you need to look at the higher end Kodak range and
they are al lot more expensive.  But for price and performance Nikon
have the edge over their competitors for example Polaroid and Microtek.
What the new Nikon range offers is faster scan times and at higher
resolutions. But in terms of defect removal you can't beat doing it
yourself in Photoshop. One last thing if you intend putting your images
on the web then no one will ever know you use Leica unless you tell
them! Because of download times resolution has to be kept low to keep
file sizes small.
My advice is buy the best you can afford in terms of optical resolution.

John Chapman
http://www.fotografie.demon.co.uk