[Leica] Film/slide scanner recommendations? Samples? Anyone use Braun?

[durling at cox.net (Mike Durling)]

I have an older Minolta Scan Dual III which I used for many years.  I 
bought an Epson V500 for medium format work.  Since I don't have room on 
my desk for both scanners I end up using the Epson for everything.  I 
find that the results are almost indistinguishable, except that the 
Epson, because of its diffuse light source, shows far less dust than the 
Minolta.  Batch scanning with the Epson is actually faster because of 
the excellent batch capabilities in the stock software.

Neither is particularly high resolution, but more than adequate for me.  
I made the mistake of comparing the Epson with an Imacon and the results 
with the latter are incredible.  If you want the ultimate in quality 
Imacon is the way to go.  Way too expensive though.

Mike D

Lluis Ripoll Querol wrote:
> Since Nikon and Minolta has stopped to produce Scanners, purchase one 
> of these on our days could be a mistake IMHO, probably no more spare 
> parts and not updates for the new operating systems on computers. I 
> think if I decide to buy a new scanner today it would be an Epson 
> V700, probably less perfect for film than the mentioned, but I never 
> obtained a scanned slide with really comparable quality to the 
> projected image, neither with a traditionnal wet print on B&W.
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> Saludos
> Lluis
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