Zos Xavius wrote: >Damn. Lucky SOB. None of the sub 2k scanners compare. You got a steal.
I can't tell you how long I let my cursor hover over the "Buy It Now" button while I an internal debate "Is it for real or is it a scam?" raged in my head. But the buyer checked out and I went for it. And now I'm scanning! According to eBay there were two other people "watching" that auction. I guess they were greedy and hoped to buy it for *less* than the $1200 BIN price. Never look a gift horse in the mouth, I say. >On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> >wrote: >> ...really is true. >> >> Like a Nikon CoolScan LS-8000 medium format film scanner (4000dpi) for >> $1200. >> >> I've seen them going for far more than that. In fact, I've seen the >> film carriers alone listed for $800! (No scanner included.) Yeah, >> that's a bit unrealistic, but 1200 bucks for the scanner in excellent >> condition with carriers for 35mm negs, 35mm slides and 120 is a great >> deal. >> >> But I checked out the seller and found he's been on eBay for a long >> time, sold just a few items and all of them a photography-related. He >> answered questions and clearly knew what he was talking about. >> >> So I went for it. It arrived today and I'm impressed so far. Here's my >> first scan (somewhat reduced in size the original is almost 11,000 x >> 9000, ~97 megapixels, 536 megabytes as a TIFF in 16-bit color). >> >> http://www.robertstech.com/temp/2017-12-08-0002.jpg -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
