Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/29

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Subject: [Leica] Scanners
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:43:32 -0500

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
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