on 2012-04-15 19:22 Paul Stenquist wrote
I have thousands of transparencies I should scan. I'll never do them all, but it would be nice to at least do a few hundred. My old Epson 3200 flatbed is working again, but its certainly not ideal. So I'm looking at used older Nikon film scanners. The coolscan V and 4000 appear to be priced at around $500 used. I think they're both 4000 dpi scanners. Is one better than the other?
given "thousands" i would consider simply getting a better Epson flatbed, with a slide scanning frame, and VueScan's automation features
my reasoning and experience: i used to have a Coolscan 4000 and i found it incredibly slow going, yet i have since gotten into the groove and bulk-scanned a few hundred of my stepfather's old slides in a few hours with an Epson 4990 (i think the v500 or v700 would be better, but i haven't kept up with latest models); this is not top quality (neither is any desktop device), but it's pretty good, and i can always go back and do more optimal scan of specific images, and i like the idea of sending out for better scans on a few; overall better use of my time an money, but YMMV of course
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