Digital BW, The Print

Austin, do you ever read Design Graphics, the Australian Pro Graphic
Arts magazine?

they recently did an exhaustive test of 14 35mm scanners from just a few
hundred dollars to $60,000 dollars. 

The best scanner of the bunch was something called Dainonippon at
$60,000. The best VALUE was the polaroid sprintscan 4000, costing about
$1500. It consistently beat the nikon 4000 dpi scanner.

The scanner showing the most grain was one of the expensive ones. On the
super blowups, some were obviously sharper on certain subjects. Others
were much better at other types of images. It was a very interesting
article. 

Jerry