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[APML] I'm throwing my TMAX in the trash!



Well, not really, it does suit it's purposes and I've learned alot with it in the last few months....
 
...But, I just got my first roll of E200 developed and WOW! what a difference.  Hey, you guys didn't tell me I would start to make out the North America Nebula on a 50mm @f2 exposed for just 5 minutes!  I'm even seeing the Veil at 10 minutes!  I've got a couple of 60 minute manual guided M27's (2000mm @f10) that look promising as well...nice round and focused stars. 
 
Problem is I don't have any way to share this with the list at the moment.  Wifey has agreed to let me order a film scanner as a two month early b-day present (she's a keeper!).  I'm thinking 'bout the Minolta Dimage Dual Scan II.  Scans @2820 dpi and looks like it has a pretty good prescan interface and at around $300 it fits the budget.  Anyone have any problems scanning astophotos with this one?  Doesn't look like I can get this anywhere local so I may have to mail order.  In the meantime I may look at having one of the local labs scan in some of my shots for me.  They're charging $1 per slide...is this reasonable?
 
Forgive the newbie excitement, but these shot have exceeded my expectations.  But I guess after working with TMAX for so long I didn't have very high expectations to begin with.  Can't wait to see what these shot look like after scanning/processing.  In general, do these scanners pick up everything?  I would imagine at 2820 dpi you're scanning grain, but I've never done this first hand.
 
Carpe Nox,  Frank