Digital BW, The Print

On Mar 20, 2004, at 9:40 AM, bbiess wrote:

> Since you mentioned the CoolScan 9000 I'm assuming you're interested
> in scanning medium format negatives and slides.  Having an interest
> in doing the same, I picked-up a 4870 about 2 weeks ago and am very
> pleased with the results.  I have a 35mm neg/slide scanner, so I'm
> using it almost exclusively for medium format, however, with a fair
> amount of Unsharp mask in Photoshop it does a satisfactory job with
> 35mm slides as well.  DigitalICE is phenominal and has already saved
> me several hours of clean-up in Photoshop.  Overall, a great scanner
> at a great price!

I haven't had the 4870 for long.
I can say that it is much improved from the 3200.
I scanned numerous 4x5 chromes this week. The real optical resolution 
is probably not much better than my 3200, but that ICE sure is nice :-)
The larger film scanner area will be a real timesaver i.e. two 4x5 at 
once instead of just one.
Sorry, no B&W negs yet. However, I will report on that soon.

John Toles
Dragonfly Imaging & Printing
Toronto, Canada
http://www.dragonflyprinting.com/
http://www.dragonflygallery.ca/