Re: [APML]: Film scanners.... which one?

[Wil Milan <wmilan@airdigital.com>]

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Mike Regish wrote:
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> A scanner for your medium format negs will run you in the neighborhood of
> $10K. No...that's not a misprint...$10,000. I did find one, possibly a
> Polaroid, for just under $8000.

Not anymore. Nikon recently lowered the price of its model 4500
scanner (scans up to 4" x 5" film) to $5500, and Olympus just
introduced a scanner which scans APS, 35mm and medium format (up
to 6cm x 9cm) for under $3000. There are also some combination
flatbed & film scanners which do a very good job on larger film
sizes. (I don't mean scanning transparencies on a flatbed, as
some used to, but flatbed scanners with special film trays for
direct film scanning). Some of those scanners, such as the
Olympus, scan medium and large format at a lower dot resolution
than 35mm, but that is usually acceptable for most larger film
uses.


Wil M.      
mailto:wmilan@airdigital.com
Astrophoto web site: http://www.airdigital.com/astrophoto.html
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