I agree they're quite a good scanner, though if you buy from a US site
like the one linked, the risk you run is that Nikon in Australia won't
honour the warranty or even work on it if you pay if it needs service.
They go for about $1000 from Australian dealers.
I've used a Canon slide scanner for many years. Slide scanners like
this do a great job but they can be slow, particularly if you run the
ICE dust and scratch removal. Nikon quote 38 seconds to scan "with no
options selected". ICE will slow that down considerably, one review I
found suggested scan times of around 2 minutes for a full res scan with
ICE enabled. If you can live with the times, it'll do everything you need.
Chris Ross
Alistair McKeough wrote:
Actually, for $700 you can get a scanner that is likely what most
people you'd pay to do it for you are using.
Something like a Nikon Coolscan V. They are 4,000 DPI and have ICE
(Image Correction & Enhancement) to remove scratches, dust et cetera.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Nikon-Coolscan-V-ED-35mm-Film-Slide-Scanner-LS-50-NEW_W0QQitemZ130250541063QQihZ003QQcategoryZ15223QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em122
Alistair
2008/9/1 Chris Ross < <>>
Graham,
I do a lot of slide scanning, can be time consuming. If you want
it done by someone, I'd suggest:
http://www.imagescience.com.au/Scanning/flextightScanning.html
Very good quality, done on Flextite scanner, worth >$10,000. the
$7.50 scan should be sufficient for most needs.
Otherwise you can do it yourself, but once again time is the
issue, you'd be looking at $700 for a good flatbed scanner, where
you can load multiple slides at once, but they are slow. A
dedicated slide scanner does the best job, Nikon are the only ones
selling them these days, apart from a couple of no name type
brands I've seen on offer. What to do will depend on what purpose
you have in mind. If you just want to use the scans for a
website, the quality requirements are relatively low, Printing a
poster size image is another issue. Shooting them with a DSLR on
light box with a macro lens is another option which could be quite
fast once you sort out the right white balance.
If you're doing it for archiving you probably want high quality
and you need to think about how you're going to store the files.
Hard discs do fail, you probably want as a minimum a copy on your
hard rive, and a back up on an external drive. If you want to ask
anything more specific drop me an email.
Chris Ross
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