Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/21

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Best Film Scanner for Black and White
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:47:02 -0400

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
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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
> 
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