I use a Nikon Coolscan IV ED that I bought from KEH.com a year or so back, used, for $235. It is an excellent performer.
To drive it: Nikon's software (which I don't use) is available for Mac OS X. I use Vuescan, which I like more (http://www.hamrick.com). However, if you have a *huge amount* of 35mm film negatives and slides to scan ... read that more than 100 ... it is almost certainly worth having it done professionally at a good service rather than buying a film scanner. There's a place that was written up in one of the professional magazines recently (I can't remember the name or the magazine just at the moment ... I'll see if I can find it later on today) that does a very very good job (likely better than anything you can do with consumer grade equipment like the above), rapid turnaround, and charges 19 to 25 cents per scan. 1000 scans for $250 will save you money on the scanner and many weeks of your time. Godfrey On Apr 25, 2008, at 8:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Slightly off topic, but I know this group will have a wealth of > information. > > I am looking at converting a huge amount of 35mm film negative, and > 35mm > slides into digital format. I know that to do this best, I will > need to > purchase a dedicated film scanner. I have done some preliminary > reserarch > on Amazon, and am a little overwhelmed with the choices. I'm > willing to > spend somewhere around $300 US as of right now, and am hoping that > ya'll > might be able to provided me with some of your own opinions. > > Hardware: > I already have several USB and Firewire external hard drives as > well as > a DVD burner. > My primary computer is an Intel-chipped MacBook > I have access to a IBM Thinkpad X61, but this is a work computer, > and I > prefer to use the Mac. > > So, on that note, all comments are welcome, and appreciated. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
