[Leica] Scanners

[billcpearce at cox.net (Bill Pearce)]

Certainly the scanner business has fallen flat on its face, much the same as 
Kodak. It would seem that someone could do well making replacement parts and 
repairing Nikon and Minolta film scanners.

Bill Pearce

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mark Rabiner
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 3:46 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Scanners

The last nikon scanner came out eight years ago
(2004) Super Coolscan LS-9000 ED (4000 dpi, 16bit, 4.8D) Firewire,
multiformat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon
I wonder if anyone, a company has leaned anything about digital imagining
since then? Proably not. They've probably all be sitting on their hands
doing nothing. I'm sure companies like Pacific Image, Braun and Hasselblad
have not looked much into it since 2004 when I was still shooting with the
first digital camera I ever got a Nikon D100 which had just come out.
I can tell you those captures to crutch now are no fun.

The 4000 and 8000 came out in 2001. 11 years ago. In digital years that's a
century.



-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/


> From: Howard Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 08:09:56 +0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Scanners
>
> If you can't find a LS5000 at an acceptable price the LS4000 might be an
> acceptable and cheaper alternative.
> I have that model which I control with Silverfast to my Mac and the 
> results
> are very good. Here is a sample scan
> of an extachrome slide taken in North China in 1976.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/China70s/_HeavyIndustw.jpg.htm
> l>
>
> Black and white scans equally well.
> Howard (in cold Hong Kong)
>
>
>> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:14:29 -0500
>> From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Scanners
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>
>> I don't think there's anything better for B&W film than the Nikon 
>> LS5000for
>> 35mm or 9000 for medium format unless it's one of the very expensive Leaf
>> scanners.  A dedicated film scanner is going to be much better than a
>> flatbed.  The software makes a big difference, too, and Silverfast is the
>> best I've found.
>>
>> Tina
>
>
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