Hi Alex, > Austin, I noticed you use Leafscan 45.
I do. > So I begun to consider selling my leg and arm (and also my wife, car, > house and children) :-) for Nikon LS9000 till encountered people's > recommendation to go Leafscan 45 route instead. > What can you say about this one ? Can it still compete wuality-wise > with contemporary machines home-oriented such as Nikon LS9000 ? I am not sure. I primarily use it for B&W, and do little color with it. It is a three pass color scanner, so scanning times will be 3x as long. I scan medium format B&W at 4 minutes per scan (the secret is not using the default exposure time, but setting it to minimum...which is plenty for negatives...for slides, you want to use "optimum", so it's even a lot slower). > Is > using Leafscan 45 indeed as much bother as I suspect comparative to > desktop film scanners ? Probably less of a bother, if you understand setpoints and tonal curves. It has a very basic, but entirely capable user interface...and IMO, has everything you need...setpoints and tonal curves. > I suspect Leafscan is Mac only, am I wrong ? You are wrong. I use it with W2k. > I'm PC user. I don't shoot B&W (at least for now), neither planning on > that in forseable future. Then I might suggest a different scanner, especially if you are shooting slides. The advantage, for me, of the Leafscan is it is a true grayscale scanner, not an RGB scanner as all other scanners are, and I believe it gives exceptional B&W results. I also do not find any need to use USM, as everyone else seems to require. My scans are tack sharp: http://www.darkroom.com/Images/Mv03bCropw.jpg (not that you can see much from a web image...) > Any comments on it are appreciated (as well as any hints to Leafscan 45 > active user groups). Yahoo has an active Leafscan user's group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Leafscan/ Regards, Austin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body