[filmscanners] Filmscanners - is this about as good as it gets?

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

For a few years, Nikon, Canon, Polaroid, Minolta were all outdoing each
other producing better general level filmscanners culminating in, for
example, the LS2000 or 4000 for Nikon.

My feeling is, that with the huge boom in pro level digital, the need for
these kind of scanners has reduced (or at least levelled off), and the
scanners themselves seem to have reached a level of performance that is
acceptable for most requirements.

So, as far as desktop film scanners go, do people think that this is about
as good as it gets for now?

I can see some moderate improvements being made here and there, and maybe a
new model or two. But I think that for the foreseeable future, the sort of
rapid development and arrival of new models has probably levelled out.

What do people think?

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