[Leica] Slide Scanner vs Slide Duplicator

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

At 07:18 PM 11/10/2007, Tina Manley wrote:
>PESO:
>
>I've been experimenting with using a Beseler Slide Duplicator and 
>the Canon 5D instead of a Nikon LS5000 Slide Scanner for both B&W 
>and Kodachrome slides.  I still prefer the scanner for other films 
>but for grainy, contrasty films that you can't use Digital ICE with, 
>the slide duplicator seems to do a better job.  I know you can't 
>really tell anything from a web-sized photo (at least I can't!)  but 
>here are the comparisons for one photo:
>
>Scanner:  http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/88718456
>
>Duplicator:  http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/88746181
>
>I can tell a big difference in the full-sized tiffs.  They are both 
>sharper and less contrasty - which is something I haven't been able 
>to achieve with the scanned slides.

But which one looks closer to the original? Kodachrome is notoriously 
difficult to scan.


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