You seem to be overlooking the option of buying the LS-30 and saving
about 1/2 the price of the LS-2000. Are you aware it's basically the
same scanner and software? One of the features you pay for by upgrading
to the LS-2000, multi-scanning, isn't necessary for scanning negatives.
The other feature of the LS-2000 over the LS-30 is 36 bit output. Here
again, if you have a color managed system, much of the benefit of this
is largely redundant as the 24 bit LS-30 scan imported into Photoshop on
a color managed system will be about 90% finished in terms of color and
tonal balance anyway. Other than these two features the two scanners
are identical in terms of scan quality.
This makes the LS-30 a relative bargain for people scanning negatives on
color managed systems. Nikonscan 2.5 does an absolutely superb job
correcting negatives on my color managed PC system.
Dave King
----- Original Message -----
From: Wei Hua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 2:17 PM
Subject: Negative film scanning - Polaroid SS4000+SilverFast vs. Nikon
LS-2000
> Hello,
>
> I mainly scan negative films. I bought a Minolta Scan Dual II several
weeks
> ago. Its color from negative films is very poor. VueScan 6.2 is much
better,
> but still not perfect. After two weeks' tweaking and trying in
Photoshop, I
> was disappointed and returned it.
>
> Then I did a test on my friend's Nikon LS-2000 with the same
negatives, the
> color is EXCELLENT. I think I have to spend more money for quality.
:-(
> After some research work, I decide to make a choice between these two
> scanners. Most of the online reviews are about slide films, so they
are not
> very useful to me. I know SS4000's color from negatives were not as
good as
> LS-2000. But now, SS4000 is bundled with SilverFast Ai 5.0, which has
a very
> good reputation. Has any body compared the negatives color between
> SS4000+SilverFast with LS- 2000? If they are similar, I might buy the
SS4000
> because of its extra DPI, because DPI is not just resolution, it also
reduce
> aliasing of film grain.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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