[Leica] Film Scanner Suggestion

[richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)]

There's a LS9000 on *that* site now with a BIN of $2500. For the price, I
was wondering whether to wait for one of those Flextight that shows up once
in a while. People are junking them for $3000-$4000.

The roll adapter is even better. Scan in a whole roll by itself while you go
for coffee or tea.

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Leonard Taupier <len-001@verizon.net>wrote:

> First let me say that both scanners will give you excellent scans. That's
> not the issue. I have both the CS V which uses the same film adapters as 
> the
>  5000. To me the difference in handling between the two is the adapters. 
> The
> CS9000 35mm adapter accepts two 6 exposure strips which all you have to do
> is drop in the strips, position them perfectly in the 12 frame openings,
> close the adapter and insert into the scanner. You can load anywhere from 1
> to 12 negatives and choose any of them to scan. You can then scan all of
> them as a batch and walk away until they're done.  I would not want to go
> back to using the CS5000 adapter. Of course the 9000 can scan 120 film. I
> scan negatives from 645 and 6x6 all the way to 6x9. But you will want to 
> buy
> the glass holder to keep the negatives perfectly flat.
>
> Now comes the cost. The 5000 is about $1000 and the 9000 about $2000 plus
> add $300 for the glass 120 holder. The other problem is the CS9000 is 
> almost
> impossible to find. I bought mine 3 years ago and it was hard to find then.
> If it were me and I couldn't find a 9000, I would buy the 5000 and a nice
> flatbed like the Epson V750 or V700.
>
> Good Luck,
> Len


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