Digital BW, The Print

I've had pretty good luck with my Minolta Scan Multi Pro. Comes equipped
with 35mm holder, 35mm slide holder and glass 6x6m 6x7, 6x9 holder. Bought
it factory re-conditioned off Ebay from 47th Street Photo in New York.

http://www.minoltausa.com/eprise/main/MinoltaUSA/MUSAContent/CPG/CPGProducts
?cname=scan

on 7/19/04 6:49 PM, john dean at deanwork2003@... wrote:

If I were you I would spend some time on the
NikonCoolscan8000-900 Yahoo group and print some of those
comments out. Pay particular attention to the new glass carrier
out there that allows you to fluid mount with Kami drum
mounting fluid. You need to be aware that the Nikon can have
focus problems with medium format (I've had difficulty making
the film lie flat) but many, many, people are suggesting this
newly designed (not by Nikon)  glass carrier is the answer.

I use the NIkon Supercoolscan 4000 and the 8000 where I teach
for my less important work, and it does pick up scratches and
dirt easily. The digital ice feature can work well on small color
files but not at all with black and white and degrades the
sharpness of all large files in my opinion.This fluid mounting
could really eliminate that dirt and scratches headache and
possibly improve the dynamic range a little bit also. But, like I just
said , keeping the film flat with a Nikon and medium format is
very important.

Although I use drum scans most of the time I would like to pick
up one of these 8000's for some of my work because of the
firewire speed of working.

Finally, look on Ebay. I have seen a ton of these Nikon' 8000's
there and a lot of them have warranties and are new. The photo
stores in big cities are trying to clear them out for the new 9000's
which  seem to be almost the same scanner . But go to that
website and read.



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