Out of curiosity - has anyone here upgraded from a 2700 dpi class scanner to something with greater dpi/DMax? What kind of step up did you make? I've been using a Canon FS2710 (DMax 3.2) for a few years now, and although I don't pretend to have mastered it, I have in some ways hit the ceiling and am aware of its limitation, both in resolution and dynamic range. I want to upgrade, but am concerned that anything significantly better will be out of my price range. Any feedback welcome.
Some of the newer scanners are definitely worth looking at. If you are not going to scan that many at once, the Minolta 5400 is an excellent scanner at a good price, that even does B&W quite well. The dynamic range is sufficient for quite dense transparencies or B&W negs. Colour negs are of course much less demanding. If you have lots of slides or strips of film to do, the Nikon 4000 (now 5000) is very good as it has a slide feeder and film strip attachment, and is better for volume work, but it does cost more especially with the attachments. It's also about twice as fast as the Minolta.
In any case, it's best to get the software to produce the widest range 16bit file, and then do your adjustments in Photoshop. The Nikon software will let you do this, but I had some problems with an early version of the Minolta software, which are fixed by now I understand. Vuescan by Ed Hamrick will handle either of these scanners and output full range 16 bit files.
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