[Leica] Scanners (nikon to discontinue most film cameras)

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

I purchased an Epson Expression 1680 about 5 years ago. I still use it a
lot today (which is more than I can say for the dedicated 35mm scanner I
purchased at about the same time). 

I can scan a whole roll of 35mm with ease. It takes a minute to load
slides or negs. But then I just push a button to scan, and I let it do
its thing.  

For negs -- bw and color -- and even slides it's more than adequate for
proofing, for web presentation, or even decent sized prints. Plus, I can
scan MF and LF, reflective or transparency. I use it more than I do my
Minolta 5400. No way do I want to scan everything with the 5400. It
wouldn't be practical.  

Personally, I think flatbed scanners are highly underrated. They are
very versatile. I even scan a lot of documents and save them as PDFs. I
hate saving and filing paper. 

DaveR

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce [mailto:bruent@shaw.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:08 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: Re: [Leica] Scanners (nikon to discontinue most film cameras)


On Jan 12, 2006, at 09:04, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

>
> I've always wondered how that would work. The Nikon LS-5000 is not
> very good at finding frames. I almost always have to fiddle with the
> pre-scan. Once you set it for the first one on a roll, does it manage
> to find the rest fairly well?
The Nikon roll adapter costs more than some scanners. I have not tried 
one, most reports suggest it works though I did read of some problems. 
An alternative to the attachment, at least for batch proof scans (and 
with some advantages if you have a significant amount of film already 
cut in strips) would be one of the better flat bed scanners (the Canon 
9950 or several similar Epson's). The Canon can handle 5 strips of 6, 
the Epson's take up to 4 strips. The Canon is fairly reliable at 
finding frames. Scan quality is according to other reports inferior to 
a good dedicated scanner (e.g. Nikon 5000 or the Minolta 5400), but the 
flatbeds also scan larger formats and positives, and cost same or less 
than the Nikon bulk attachment.