Digital BW, The Print

I see a lot of people suggesting the Canon. 
 
When I researched this a while back, a lot of the reviewers rated the
Nikon Scanners the best. Including, to Canons chagrin (spelling?),
George Lepp (who is a Canon Contract photographer).
 
I bought the Nikon scanner. It's worked great. The batch slide scanner
attachment is also very useful. (does cannon offer this now? They didn't
in the past) The 16x over scanning produces awesome shadow detail. ICE
works great. You can apply Unsharp Masking at scan time (most people
suggest doing it lightly), and the workflow works well. 
 
I've seen some people complain about the scanning software. It's worked
fine for me. That said, I've profiled my entire workflow. During
scanning I have the image saved without any color space conversion
(raw). I then apply the Scanner profile to the image when opening it in
Photoshop and have the color space converted to AdobeRGB. Generally I
don't need to do any pre-scan adjustments (levels, white point/black
point, curves, etc.) However, if the image is off very badly, then the
NikonScan software works well for that (level, curves, etc)
 
Even though the Nikon scanner costs more, I'd take a hard look at it.
 
You know the old saying about tools: buying it cheap the first time
costs more... (because you end up buying the "better" tool anyway in the
long run).
 
My opinion.
 
Jim

	-----Original Message-----
	From: knightmaer35@... [mailto:knightmaer35@...] 
	Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:00 AM
	To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
	Subject: Re: [Digital BW] scanners
	
	
	In a message dated 11/11/02 7:58:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
	leicachris@... writes:
	
	
	> Canon's suggested price is $1,100. Do not buy a gray market
scanner, Canon
	> will not fix it if it breaks.
	> 
	
	Are you sure about that? They will honor the warranty on their
cameras, 
	regardless of whether it is USA or gray.
	
	
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