Hi Andre, I've not been ignoring you. I wanted to contact someone off-list who had a FS4000 to see if he might wish to comment, I left it with him.
I have only reviewed scans from this scanner, not having used it. I would expect from the result I saw that the SS4000 was less noisy than the FS 4000 in shadows. The manufacturers gave it very similar specs, but I know the SS4000 was, if anything, underestimated in is numbers. It is a pretty noiseless scanner, although the SS4000+ was somewhat improved. The FS4000 does have a firewire connection, but is still quite slow. The SS4000 is pretty good even with the SCSI I connection. I know the SS4000 does good B&W scans, but don't know about the FS4000. Art Andre Moreau wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Arthur Entlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 6:57 AM > Subject: [filmscanners] Re: What can you advise? > (...snip) > The only other 4000 dpi scanner I know of is the Canon FS4000. It is a > diffused lighting scanner with an IR cleaning process called FARE. > > However, although it is by far the least expensive 4000 dpi scanner, the > major complaints are that it is quite slow (even on firewire), it > suffers from noisy shadows > > > Art, > Is the Canon FS4000 suffering from noisy shadows with all type of films or > is this problem apparent only with slides ? > > How would the original Polaroid SS4000 compare with the Canon FS4000 for > scanning b&w negative: silver halide and chromogenic C-41 process films ? > Thanks, > Andre > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body