At 6:10 PM -0800 2/17/09, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I have and use both a Minolta Scan Dual II and Nikon Coolscan IV ED.
Either can be found for well within or under your budget. Both do a
superb job.
The Nikon is a more robust unit and includes dust and scratch
removal ( not usable with BW silver gelatin films).
I don't use any of the manufacturers' software. I drive them both
with VueScan. It does a better job.
How about the dust removal, though? I have an Epson 4990 Photo with
Digital Ice which ViewScan does not support. It has its own infrared
clean which does not work so well. It still does a better job with
respect to image quality than the drivers which came with the
scanner, though.
In some ways I like the scan quality of the Minolta more: it's lens
has more DoF and handles severely curled film better. But the Nikon
is faster and has slightly better acutance, and it's film carriers
are sturdier (particularly the APS carrier).
Both of these ~2900ppi scanners have made scans that produced superb
13x19 inch prints.
I also own a Konica Minolta Scan Dual IV which I use for 35mm. It is
great. However, K-M got out of the scanner business at the same time
they sold their camera line to Sony, and I had a devil of a time
finding a new driver for the scanner when I went from my G4 running
OS 10.3 to my Imac G5 running 10.4 two years ago. It will probably be
even more difficult now to find a driver for OS 10.5.
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