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Subject: [Leica] Film/slide scanner recommendations? Samples? Anyone use Braun?
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 07:49:44 +0530
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I had my Nikon Coolscan V ED serviced by the authorised service agent
here six months ago.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Charlie Chan
<topoxforddoc at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Lluis,
>
> I had my Minolta Scan Elite 5400 serviced by the UK distributor/service 
> agent (Johnsons Photopia) 3 years ago - no problem.
>
> Charlie Chan
> Cheltenham, UK
>
> topoxforddoc at btinternet.com
> www.cancer-surgeon.co.uk
> www.charlie-chan.co.uk
>
>
>
> On 5 Jun 2010, at 18:42, Lluis Ripoll Querol wrote:
>
>> Since Nikon and Minolta has stopped to produce Scanners, purchase one of 
>> these on our days could be a mistake IMHO, probably no more spare parts 
>> and not updates for the new operating systems on computers. I think if I 
>> decide to buy a new scanner today it would be an Epson V700, probably 
>> less perfect for film than the mentioned, but I never obtained a scanned 
>> slide with really comparable quality to the projected image, neither with 
>> a traditionnal wet print on B&W.
>>
>> Saludos
>> Lluis
>>
>>
>>
>> El 05/06/2010, a las 3:13, Tina Manley escribi?:
>>
>>> I really think they have stopped developing scanners. ?Nobody shoots film
>>> any more. ?The Nikon scanners are still the latest and greatest, as far 
>>> as
>>> film scanners go. ?Some people will tell you that you can use a slide
>>> duplicator and a DSLR to copy the slides and end up with a very good 
>>> scan.
>>> Not true. ?It doesn't even begin to have the same amount of information 
>>> as
>>> a scan from a dedicated film scanner.
>>>
>>> Tina
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I love my nikon scanner but time passes on and its real real old 
>>> digitally
>>>
>>>> speaking. The other guys I'm sure have come up with something.
>>>>
>>>> [Rabs]
>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>>> www.tinamanley.com
>>>
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In reply to: Message from andrew.nv1b at gmail.com (Andrew Moore) ([Leica] Film/slide scanner recommendations? Samples? Anyone use Braun?)
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Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Film/slide scanner recommendations? Samples? Anyone use Braun?)
Message from lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll Querol) ([Leica] Film/slide scanner recommendations? Samples? Anyone use Braun?)
Message from topoxforddoc at btinternet.com (Charlie Chan) ([Leica] Film/slide scanner recommendations? Samples? Anyone use Braun?)