If I'd seen a Nikon 8000 for under $1000, I'd have grabbed it in an instant. I haven't seen one for under $1200 ....
Last year I purchased a used Nikon LS-40 for $200 or so. I just started using it recently. It's an excellent scanner and makes it easier to scan 35mm and APS than my old Minolta Scan Dual II ... the auto strip loader works very nicely, as does the slide loader and APS loader. I'd have gone for an LS-50 or LS-5000 if I could find one inexpensively enough, but everything I looked at was more than double the price. I obtained a V700, primarily for the purpose of scanning 120 film, and it arrived just yesterday. I'll likely do diligence and test its quality against the Nikon today. Godfrey On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:10 AM, Paul Ewins wrote: > I've decided that the time really has come to get a scanner for my > accumulated 35mm negs and slides. The trouble is that there simply > isn't > much choice. Locally it boils down to the Nikon Coolscan 50 or Nikon > Coolscan 5000. The local pricing works out at roughly US$800 or US > $1600. > > There is nothing much on eBay Australia second hand - no Canoscan > 4000 or > Minolta 5400 - and I definitely want at least 4000DPI. I had a look > at US > eBay and the Canons and Minoltas were still scarce and the Nikons > all seemed > to be new. They were cheaper than I could buy them here (including > postage) > but not cheap enough to make me ignore the local warranty. > > What I did see were a number of the Nikon LS8000 medium format > scanners and > it looks like I might be able to pick one of those up for under $1000 > assuming they'll post to Australia. A bit of poking around on the > B&H and > Calumet sites turned up the Microtek Artixscan MF scanner for US > $1500 new. > > So now my choices are: > New Coolscan 50 (bought locally) vs. 2nd hand Nikon LS8000 bought > in the US > > New Coolscan 5000 (bought locally) vs. Microtek Artixscan 120tf > bought new > in the US. > > Does anybody have any direct experience with any of these units? Or > have a > Minolta 5400 to sell? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
