Digital BW, The Print

Hi Lew

You're right about saying that , although the Nikon's scans are better, they are not world class. I'm fighting a lot to get a decent, if not good, scan from my slides.

I (sometimes) get nice and clean results but I must stay away from "Digital Ice"; I don't know where Nikon bought the patent but it produces so many artifacts from the scans, that the result is non-usable. Actually I've sent some scans to Nikon only to get a "software limits" issue from them.

I'll try to get better results from a third party scanning software (VueScan) but I doubt it.

DMax overrated? I don't think so. For my 4x5, I usually go with the flow but for 35mm, the higher the better. The Heidelberg Prepress (I don't know the exact model) is quite a machine! Since I have a large collection of slides, options are still open.

I'm sticking to my Nikon LS-500 ED IV (although Nikon is not supporting my OS choice). I'm scanning with an older computer and processing the results in a newer one. This is a bit of a hassle but… companies don't care too much about compatibility these days.


Jacques Caron
Photographe
jacques.caron@videotron.qc.ca