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Subject: [Leica] OT: Best Film Scanner for Black and White
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:13:23 -0400
References: <q2pdaaeb97e1004211738y29250562ie6eafc905f2755b7@mail.gmail.com>

I use the Nikon LS5000 but the software is very important, too.  I only want
to scan everything once so I'm using Lasersof't's HDR software which lets
you do multiple scans and combine them for what they call a RAW file.  It's
far better than anything I could get with any other software.

Tina

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 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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Tina Manley, ASMP
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