Digital BW, The Print

It's been a long time, Arlene, since I read a FLAAR review, but I got  
that they were not writing for a small fish like me.

I would try to get a used drum scanner except that I'm not competent  
to shop for one intelligently. My next stop down the quality and cost  
ladder would be a Nikon; I'm not sure which one. To get below $1000,  
I'd consider one of the best of the Epson flatbed scanners and  
printing only relatively small prints from its scans; my guess is  
that 11x14 is a stretch, at least when you've cropped. But what if  
you used one of those to select out only a few exposures to take  
somewhere for drum scanning?

Hard choices, I'm afraid.
--
Sam


On Feb 28, 2007, at 6:24 AM, arlenelove3@... wrote:

> I've been reading the FLAAR reviews on film scanners and it seems  
> they all
> stink unless I can cough up at least 12K for a drum scanner. My  
> Minolta 5400
> dies and I need one in the range of $1000 more or less (preferably  
> less). After
>  reading FLAAR, it looks hopeless. Any recommendations?
>                         Arlene
> arlenelove3@...
>
> [snip]