Re: [Leica] Scanners

["Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>]

At 6:23 PM -0800 12/20/00, Cochran, Adam wrote:
>All  - -  I am of the opinion that it will be a long time before there is a
>digital camera that will provide the performance or "feel" of the Leica, but
>enjoy PhotoShop, and thus am interested in obtaining a scanner for 35mm film
>and transparencies.  Several of you have commented quite positively over the
>past several months on the Nikon LS-2000.  However, I have also reviewed
>comments by others at
>
>http://www.image-acquire.com/scanner/viscomm/nikocs2000.html
>
>where users do not speak well of the LS-2000 scanner, particularly Nikon
>service which is (according to them) greatly needed for this product.  Have
>any of you had a negative experience with the reliability of the LS-2000?
>Are there other scanners in this price range that you would recommend?

I've had the LS-2000 a little more than a year, and had the LS-20 
before that. Before buying the LS-2000 I had both the Polaroid 4000 
and the LS-2000 at the same time for a little, and the extra shadow 
detail that the LS-2000 was able to pick up in dense areas was the 
deciding factor and more than offset the higher resolution of the 
Polaroid in my estimation.

I have the 50 slide feeder as well. This has been finicky, but still 
a worthwhile purchase, as I can let it do a 12bit, 4x sampling batch 
in about 2 hours all by itself and then do all the correction in 
Photoshop.

Both Nikon scanners I've had have been without problems. The one I 
bought was a refurbished unit, so it might have had a problem 
earlier, but it seems properly fixed, whatever it was.

The Polaroid software has been improved since I tried it, and it is 
undoubtedly a worthy alternative. Minolta also has a scanner in this 
range, but I have no experience with it.



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