Digital BW, The Print

He's got a good point there. I forgot the 9000 and 8000 could be used 
with a glass carrier and Kami. With correctly exposed negs it could 
be ok. Really it is the only game in town in that price range besides 
the similar Microtek film scanner and I always found the Nikon to be 
a bit more reliable from the ones we had at school and I don't think 
you can fluid mount with the Microtek.

I didn't know about the newton rings. That would be tedious.

Tyler, there is actually a Nikon Scanner Yahoo list. I'd go over 
there and see what the past posts have to say about fluid mounting.

john


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark" 
<pr_roark@...> wrote:
>
> Tyler,
> 
> > I have a friend, not satisfied with her Epson flatbed for anything
> > smaller than 4x5, and not rich enough to have me drum scan for her
> > regularly, darn it.
> 
> > I'd suggest the Nikon to her, but there have to be many here 
> scanning
> > medium format negs for B&W output with useful opinions, all would 
be
> > welcome. ...
> 
> I use the Nikon 8000 and am very happy with it.  I use the glass 
> carrier for most B&W film, but it'll give Newton rings with color 
> film and if too much Photo Flo is used on B&W.  I'd buy another if 
> mine broke.  My impression is that the 9000's improvements dealt 
> mostly with color.  So, a used Nikon 8000 might be worth looking 
for.
> 
> One thing I do have to do to avoid the Nikon software's assumptions 
> is scan negatives as grayscale positives.
> 
> In terms of quality, I can take a 645 negative to 22 x 28 with 
> essentially perfect sharpness.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com
>