Shel, The two top brands for home users in my opinion are the Minolta Dimage series and the Nikons. I've owned both. They both have nice twain interfaces, and both have option that includes interface cards. You want something faster than USB 1.0, becuase a hi-res scan can produce 30+ megabyte files and that takes time to travel over your wire!
I switched from Minolta to Nikon because I wanted medium format support and went to the LS-8000. I think Minoltas are a bit more affordable currently. Lastly, make sure your scanner you are considering is supported by the ScanVue software from Hamrick. Its probably the best scanner software out there, so you always want to have that as an option! Since you are mainly talking about older B&W film, don't get too impressed by Digital ICE and those addons, many aren't compatible with true B&W emulsions! At 01:45 AM 3/18/2004 -0800, you wrote: >I'm working on a long term project to scan years worth of >B&W negatives and also plan to use the scanner for E6 >transparencies, and, to a lesser extent, color neg. I also >intend to make larger than 8x10 prints and feel that the >largest pixel count is important. > >I'm very close to deciding on a Nikon 4000ppi model (I can >never recall the model number <sigh>). Why did those of you >who bought one, decide it was the way to go? And for those >who bought something else, why that, or why not the Nikon? > >My choice of the Nikon is based on it being the only scanner >I've used and that's affordable at this time, and that I've >heard some questionable comments about other scanners. > > > >shel > >
