Re: filmscanners: film flatness in Nikon's

2001-04-02 Thread Arthur Entlich
PAUL GRAHAM wrote: maybe other scanners use a brighter lightsource and so gain depth of focus etc, but this one doesn't. I expect there is some trade made by Nikon against using tubes for LED spectrum, long life, heat, consistency or ?... I think you are correct, that this was a decision

Re: filmscanners: film flatness in Nikon's

2001-04-01 Thread Mikael Risedal
Paul ! Nikon claims in their text that ED4000 are a professional product. You call it earlier a semi professional product, and we shall not expect more of the scanner. What kind of logic is that? Why shall we not expect that the scanner are 100% sharp over the whole picture and still be easy to

Re: filmscanners: film flatness in Nikon's

2001-04-01 Thread BeedeeX
Who many of us who are daily working with pictures are interested to put a film in a carrier made of glass.??? Well, I prefer the glass especially for prints over 20x24" I haven't had time to read all the posts in the last few weeks, and I gathered from this topic/thread that the Nikon 8000

RE: filmscanners: film flatness in Nikon's

2001-04-01 Thread Lawrence smith
I'm hoping the new Nikons will help drive the price of these down to a place where I could afford one! Lawrence http://www.lwsphoto.com Please take a look at: http://www.imacon.dkand the scanner Flextight Photo or Polaroid. This film scanners have not the Nikons problem with film