Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LUG: If you are in the market for a new scanner you might want to wait for the Nikon LS5000 coming out soon. Here is information from another list: From a recent review by the respected French magazine 'Chasseur d'Images'. : >"This lens confirms in a shining way its outstanding quality. Not only it >delivers extreme detail at the center of the slide, it also keeps it >across the entire field. This suggests some work has been made on the >mounted slide bending issue: [as a result] the quadrature of the circle >with a very high sharpness and a convenient depth of field... and a little >better than the 4000!" >In a side-by-side comparison between the new Nikons V and 5000 ED, and the >Minolta, Chasseur d'Images claimed the 5000 was the best desktop scanner >they've ever tested; they even stated it was a pity they don't have a >six-star rating to give it. In second place came the Coolscan V; the "old" >Coolscan 4000ED and the Minolta 5400 came ex-aequo in third place . >Scanning time (using ICE) was 8'41" for the Minolta 5400, 1'54" for the >Nikon V and an amazing 0'57" for the Nikon 5000 with its double-line CCD. >Without ICE, the respective times were 1'53" / 53" / 23". >Nikon's 5000 productivity is obviously superior, and the testers appraised >its optical quality as "incredible". Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.workbookstock.com http://www.newscom.com http://www.americanphotojournalist.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html