well, i bought a Nikon 4000ED and i have done about 1000 scans with it so far. every now and then, i wish i had bought the mounted slide feeder, but i haven't, so i have to do it the hard way, one at a time. it takes about 40-50 mounted slides at once. i experimented some turning off the Digital ICE but that led to so much work, even from visually clean slides under an 8X loupe, that i quickly turned it back on and leave it that way. there is some softening, but the alternative is a lot more work in front of the monitor. also, the softening is losing detail only when i am scanning Velvia taken with my macro lens. the Coolscan and other LED scanners have a terrible time with Kodachrome so i gave up on that almost right away. shot the last of my Kodachrome 25 and got some interesting but not really intended effects because of the heavy color casts that resulted and then my attempts to correct them. i don't shoot B&W anymore. if a slide looks like it might be interesting as B&W, i convert using the Channel mixer.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "graywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 7:33 PM Subject: Re: New scanner > So basically 30 scans would pay for the scanner? > > Of course that does not take into consideration your time learning to use it > properly and your time doing the scanning. I noticed a 50-100 slide batch > scanner in the new B&H Digital Catalog for $700, but it is only 3600 dpi. But > that may be a bagain for someone who had a bunch of slides to digitalize. That > is the cheapest I have seen a high capacity batch scanner selling for.
