>I'm prepared to buy a good quality desktop slide scanner and recently my >heart set on fire for Nikon LS-30 Coolscan III scanner. User comments, pros >and cons welcome. The hardware appears to have the quality we expect of Nikon, and the ICE feature that deals with dust and scratches is a big time-saver. (The scans otherwise are extremely sensitive to defects.) But you absolutely MUST experience the software before you buy. "eMediaWeekly" gave the scanner a poor rating overall due to the software, but I bought it anyway, thinking "How bad could it be? It's just a scanner." Well, it turned out to be the worst software I have ever used. By far. It is astonishingly, breathtakenly bad in all areas of form, fit and function. I can't elaborate without getting emotional, so don't ask, please. Software should have Beauty, like our photos and our F5's; the CoolScan III software should be purged from human record. Curt Austin, Cincinnati http://www.AustinImage.com
