Re: Multi Pro or Coolscan 8000?

"Toni Nikkanen" <toni@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> While the original advice of buying a new Nikon 9000 when I have
gathered
> the money is probably the best choice (I could have the money tonight if
I 
> wanted
> to; I have a mortgage :) it is also a question of just how much spending
I 
> can
> justify for the silly obsession of scanning film :)

One of the reasons for my suggestion is that I'm a real wimp when it comes

to electronic equipment: your US$2,000 buys you a year of use (with optics

that start out clean), whereas you don't know when something in a used
unit 
is going to blow, at your expense (if even repairable, especially with the

Minolta, since the company doesn't even exist any more). I purchase at a 
store that provides an extended limited 5 year guarantee (for 5% of the 
purchase price), and they've fixed things that have died after one but
less 
than 5 years from time of purchase.

Sorry to be on your case here, but, IMHO, buying a used scanner is a bad 
idea.

I'd stick with the V700. (Have you tried scanning at 6400 ppi, applying 
light noise reduction, downsampling to, say, 2700 ppi? That might create a

very nice file that'll print nicely at 300 ppi, which is a 9x enlargement,

which is about all film is good for for quality prints anyway.)

One thing you might want to do is to take your sharpest slide and have it 
drum scanned at 8000 ppi and see how much better that is than the V700, 
although that will take a large bite out of your scanner fund.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan