Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Films for scanning

2001-06-14 Thread rafeb
At 01:37 PM 6/14/01 +1000, you wrote: Rafe wrote: Look at the bright side. You can buy a used SprintScan Plus on eBay right now for about 1/4 of what a new one used to cost, about 2 years ago. If you happen to live in the USA. :) Still AFAIK the retail price of the SS4000 has come down from

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Films for scanning

2001-06-14 Thread Rob Geraghty
rafeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In terms of US $$, you have the same access to eBay prices as everyone else, right? The cost of shipping makes ebay pricing irrelevent. I saw some unbelievable prices for Epson printers for example, but by the time you ship it, pay GST on import, and get a power

Re: filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Films for scanning

2001-06-14 Thread Arthur Entlich
Ebay is great. I use it semi-regularly, but I have to say it can be a real PITA for people outside of the US. Firstly, I'd guess at least 95% of the sellers will not sell to or ship out of the US. The ones that do, charge huge fees to service clients out of the US. Further, there appears

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: films for scanning

2001-06-14 Thread Rob Geraghty
Tony wrote: I probably shouldn't say this, but I have used Superia800 quite a lot with the SS4000 and am amazed how insignificant grain is. At A4 from an Epson, it's there, just, but you really only notice a relative lack of tonal refinement compared to slower films. Gah. I'll definitely

filmscanners: Re: filmscanners: Films for scanning

2001-06-13 Thread Rob Geraghty
Rafe wrote: Look at the bright side. You can buy a used SprintScan Plus on eBay right now for about 1/4 of what a new one used to cost, about 2 years ago. If you happen to live in the USA. :) Still AFAIK the retail price of the SS4000 has come down from its original price. I'm not sure how