Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I was hoping to get some personal recommendations on a film scanner for >my backlog of leica(on topic)b&w negatives and some kodachrome slides. >my goal is to put these images up on a website, not for printing. the >models i have looked into are the HP s20 and the nikon ls-30. does >anyone out there have any experiance with these. i was hoping to spend >around 500~700 dollars. thanks for the help.-daniel mcclenaghan Hi Daniel, I am presently looking for the same thing as you are. I want to scan quite a big amount of slides wich are for the most part (at least 80%) Kodachrome I have taken over the last 25 years. The other negs I want to scan are b&w (T-Max, Tri-X, Agfa). Again this is in great quantity. All of them in 35mm. I have read a few articles in various magazines and on the Internet about that. I also want to use these scans on my website. For this purpose, my choice will probably be the Canon FS2710. I have read an interesting review of this film scanner in December 99 Shutterbug magazine. It seems to work very well with Kodachrome and black & white (which is not necessarily the case with Nikon scanners). I also have a review of different scanners from Popular Phothog. At the time the Canon FS2710 didn't exist but if I remember well, the HP was not very good. The best one would probably be the Polaroid scanner but it is more expensive. The Canon sells for +-$500. I brought a few Kodachrome to the dealer where I would buy this scanner. I am now waiting for the scans to compare with the slides. If the result is good, I will go for it. Regards, Jacques Leonard =============== j.leonarddeesigner@videotron.ca web site at: www.jlda-design.com