Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tarek, Nikon scanners are unforgiving. Great scanners. Maybe the best available. But I never had much luck with mine. I owned two and sold both. I scan most of my slides and negs on an Epson 1160. Everything from 35mm to 4x5. I also have an 11-year old Leafscan which I know inside and out. It's slow, but still does a remarkable job. I think my problems with Nikon scanners were rooted in the fact that I never learned to use them well. I thought that they should be plug and play and I became frustrated when they weren't. Even with Vuescan I found that each scanner has a different learning curve. DaveR Tarek wrote: "... the Nikon Scanner gets the tiniest scratches and the smallest dust onto the scan! A couple of negatives that gave practically no scratches when printed in the darkroom came out horrible with the Coolscan 5000 - so many scratches and stuff I hadn't seen in the first place. The same negative came out fine when scanned either with a flatbed scanner or with a drumscanner. ..."