On 5 Dec 2005 at 15:28, Sylwester Pietrzyk wrote: > LS2000 is very fine scanner for colour slides (E-6). But it is not so good > for b&w material though - no matter if C-41 or classic. Especially in case > of classic, silver based b&w materials there's a problem with LED's light, > which is directional and blocked by silver particles. It results in very low > Dmax - according to tests in Colour Foto a few years ago it was about 2... > Nikon > has managed to improve this in the latest batch of their film scanners.
Late Nikon scanners still use an LED light source but the light is diffuse not a condensor assembly as can be seen in the LS2000. In the late scanners the LEDs are fired into both ends of a glass rod which has white patch stuck to it. The light that is reflected off this patch and through the media is quite diffuse. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
