Digital BW, The Print

Robert,

I have the Polaroid and it has been working just fine for my 35mm and 6x7
negs for the last 14 months. I just got the glass carrier and that solves
the cropping and edge ghosting problems I had with the standard medium
format carrier. The glass carrier and the standard carrier will accommodate
a strip with 3 - 6x7 negs. You can actually scan the entire area of the
glass holder so it will accommodate negs up to 25cm long which would be real
plus for panorama shooters or people with 6x12 view camera roll film backs.

There was a recent thread about the Nikon 8000 on the Hi-End Scanner group.
Several people were complaining of focus problems and poor support from
Nikon and others had good experiences.

The Polaroid software can get you a raw or adjusted 16-bit file. Nothing
fancy but for B&W seems fine. I use Silverfast since it came with the
scanner and I am used to working with it. I really don't do much image
adjustment with the scanning software except to set black and white points
in the scanner equivalent of Levels then do everything else in PS.

Martin



----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Morrison" <rmorrison@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 10:28 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] Nikon 8000 vs. Polaroid 120


> What's the current vibe on the Nikon vs. the Polaroid for scanning 6x7 BW
> negs?  I remember seeing film holder issues discussed.  Who wins?  What's
> the best software for these...Vue Scan?
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> Robert
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