Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/27

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Subject: [Leica] Film Scanner Suggestion
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sat Dec 27 15:16:46 2008
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At 05:39 PM 12/27/2008, you wrote:
>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.

Depends partly on how much you value your time, too.  The drum 
scanners are going to take at least 10x as long to scan a 35mm slide 
or negative.  On the other hand, if you want to scan everything only 
once and have the very best scan possible, it would be worth it to 
spend the extra time and money with a drum scanner.  I'm conflicted 
myself but am using the Nikon LS5000 now and am pretty satisfied with 
my results.  I'm afraid to look at how much better a drum scan might be ;-)

Tina

Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com 


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