Well, I finally got around to picking up my Nikon Coolscan LS40ED this afternoon, and I'm very pleased with it.
A surprisingly small machine (despite the *huge* cardboard box it came in!), it's produced some superb results so far. Installation was very easy - I plugged in the USB cable and XP immediately recognised it correctly and installed a driver. I installed Nikon Scan 3, and have already done a few decent scans. I particularly like the batch-scanning feature - just slipping a film strip in and letting the scanner do the rest (just what I wanted). A couple of questions: 1. For some reason the batch scanning facility defaults to assuming that each strip has 6 pictures on it. That's fine, except that some of mine don't - and it generates an error for the 'missing' pics. A minor annoyance, but not the end of the world. 2. Is VueScan going to be a better option for scanning than Nikon Scan 3? What's the batch scanning handling like? Small questions, but all in all I'm very pleased so far. :-) Mark
