Digital BW, The Print

Randy,
I think Ernst advice about the Epson scanners is sound. I am quite 
happy with Silverfast but never could get Vuescan to work well for me. 
I have the 2450 and I made several test scans of 35mm and printed to 
13x19" just to test and was blown away with how well it did.

The wet mount makes all kinds of sense to me, but not the time to 
implement since I got my digital camera.

Jerry

On Tuesday, July 20, 2004, at 07:08  PM, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 13
>    Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:07:34 -0000
>    From: "Randy Rancier" <rrancier@...>
> Subject: Medium Format Film Scanners???
>
> Can any of you offer any other or better recommendations than what I
> have concluded below?
> I am in the market for a good used scanner that will handle medium
> format negs.  My current budget will not allow me the $1000, or so,
> for a used or refurbed Coolscan 8000's on eBay; in fact $500 is
> currently more than I can spend.  Unless any of you know of some
> older medium format film scanner models that can be had cut rate I
> will probably invest in a Epson 2450 or 3200 $150 - $300 or so.  I
> understand one can get pretty good 11X14's from 2 1/4 negs, I will be
> doing mostly 8X10's for a while anyway; and I could scan some of my
> old 4X5's to boot.  While I will eventually upgrade to a medium
> format film scanner in the future, from what I know, there aren't any
> older model medium format film scanners out there; is there???
>
> Was the Coolscan 8000 the first Nikon Scanner that would handle
> medium format?
>
> Thanks for everyones input, I respect all of your opinions!
> Randy
Jerry Hadam
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