Re: Film scanners (ahem)

2006-05-11 Thread Toralf Lund
Juan Buhler wrote: I had a bit of an epiphany yesterday. [ ... ] I still have my Polaroid SprintScan 4000, and I'm happy with its results. It is SCSI though, which means I have to use it from my old PC--this is the only reason that PC hasn't been discarded yet. So, will you be selling the

Re: Film scanners (ahem)

2006-05-09 Thread Steve Jolly
Juan Buhler wrote: I still have my Polaroid SprintScan 4000, and I'm happy with its results. It is SCSI though, which means I have to use it from my old PC--this is the only reason that PC hasn't been discarded yet. Far be it from me to discourage enablement on this list, but have you

Re: Film scanners (ahem)

2006-05-09 Thread Thibouille
What computer do you have now? You can buy a scsi adapter for your new PC. There are even converter USB - SCSI. You might try one. 2006/5/8, Juan Buhler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I had a bit of an epiphany yesterday. I went shooting to a Polish festival in Golden Gate Park. There was music and

Re: Film scanners (ahem)

2006-05-09 Thread Aaron Reynolds
On May 9, 2006, at 3:10 AM, Steve Jolly wrote: Far be it from me to discourage enablement on this list, but have you considered getting a SCSI adapter for your new computer? I was going to suggest this, too -- the Sprintscan 4000 ain't no slouch, as far as I can remember. I'm still using

Re: Film scanners (ahem)

2006-05-09 Thread Rob Studdert
On 9 May 2006 at 7:48, Aaron Reynolds wrote: On May 9, 2006, at 3:10 AM, Steve Jolly wrote: Far be it from me to discourage enablement on this list, but have you considered getting a SCSI adapter for your new computer? I was going to suggest this, too -- the Sprintscan 4000 ain't no

Film scanners (ahem)

2006-05-08 Thread Juan Buhler
I had a bit of an epiphany yesterday. I went shooting to a Polish festival in Golden Gate Park. There was music and dancing indoors, and I started shooting with the istD. Even with the FA35, focusing was not completely trivial, given the light. So I pulled the Leica off the bag, and shot a

Re: Film scanners (ahem)

2006-05-08 Thread Adam Maas
I'd recommend the Nikon CoolScan V for a 4000dpi scanner. Minolta did make a couple 5400dpi models, but they provided no real resolution increase over the 4000dpi models. Personally I'm using a 2820dpi Minolta Scan Dual III, which is cheap and quite good. -Adam Juan Buhler wrote: I had

Re: Film scanners (ahem)

2006-05-08 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On May 8, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Juan Buhler wrote: ... So I think I might be shooting a bit more film in the future, at least until there's a nice digital rangefinder for about the price of a DSLR. Sadly, I don't think that will happen. According to dealer friends, sales of the Epson RD-1

Film scanners (ahem)

2006-05-08 Thread Shel Belinkoff
Hi Juan ... For the money the Nikon Coolscan V is an excellent scanner. I've been happy with mine. However, if I had it to do all over again, I'd have spent the extra $$ and gotten the Coolscan 5000. It works in 16-bit rather than 14-bit, allows multi-pass scanning, plus it takes the roll