[filmscanners] Re: Better DOF than Nikon?

["arm" <a3murray@deepthought.org>]

Hi Paul

           Have no idea how bowed your slides are.   I have a minolta elite
5400.    I frequently get edge blur with slides or negatives.   I has not
bothered me that much but I certainly do not get edge to edge sharp
focusing.     Have also used a LS-8000 and before a LS-4500 with the same
problem

           I guess your only alternative is to find someone with each of
the scanners or a store which has both and will let you plug in a laptop to
test them "so you may decide which you want to buy".

          Best Alex.

At 01:04 PM 1/8/2004, you wrote:
> > From: Arthur Entlich
> >
> > Without trying to be cute, basically any of them.  This is a problem
> > with the LED lighting system Nikon uses.  The cold cathode tube lighting
> > used by most scanners is simply brighter and allows for the lens to be
> > closed down further, allowing for more depth of field.
>
>How much better are they? Will a Minolta (for instance) handle my rippled
>slides just fine, or will it be only somewhat better? I'm trying to decide
>whether I should invest in a new scanner, or fix the old one. I wish
>scanners had standardized DOF specs.
>
>--
>
>Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
>Paul                mailto:pderocco@ix.netcom.com
>
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