[LRflex] Re: slide scanner advice requested
- From: <chfalke@xxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:26:27 -0500
David,
I don't think I need the additional speed and wouldn't mind to
save the money. Do you miss the additional dynamic range of
the 5000 for underexposed slides or night skies?
Charlie.
---- David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 05/12/2007, you wrote:
> >Calling all Flexers,
> > I'm about to buy a slide scanner. I'm thinking
> >of the Nikon Coolscan V ED or the 5000 ED. Any advice
> >will be appreciated, particularly whether the 5000's
> >additional bits are worth the extra money. (The speed is
> >not a big factor for me.)
> >Thanks,
>
>
> Hi Charlie!
>
> Like many others, here, I have the Nikon Coolscan V-ED. It works
> very well and has proved superbly reliable. The 5000 is faster (20
> seconds scans) and will handle a bulk slide feeder for 50 slides, but
> unless you need those features (at much extra money), the V works just fine.
>
> Mine has a bit of dirt (or a bad pixel in the scanning bar) which
> results in a coloured line across the photos. Rather than pay to
> have it fixed, I use digital ICE (this adds about 30 seconds ot a
> scan) and you'd never know there is a problem. As I mostly shoot
> digital, the ICE is a much lower cost solution than sending it in to
> get it fixed!
>
> YMMV.
>
> Cheers!
>
> ---
>
> David Young,
> Logan Lake, CANADA
>
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