[filmscanners] Re: Oh no! Not another "which one should I buy"question

["alan" <list@alanharper.com>]

I am having very good luck scanning old Kodachrome (not sure if 64 or 25)
35mm slides with a Nikon 4000. I have to work to recover the color, but
Vuescan does 50% of the work for me. Some of the slides have a funny
surface--probably lacquer that has aged--and the IR does a good job of
removing it. The slides date from the 50s. I have created some very nice
10x14 prints from them that have pretty good color.

There have been lots of discussions here about the need to modify the
bulk loader for thinner slides like Kodachrome paper mounts. It's easy.

I haven't seen the Nikon 5000, but a rep at Mac World seemed to think
that there weren't many hardware changes. It wasn't clear whether he knew
this or was just saying the first thing that fell into his head.

A

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Ed Lusby at Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:27:57 -0800 said:

>I've been lurking in the group for a long time, but now I'm actually going
>to buy a scanner. Most of my old slides are Kodachrome64, so I haven't been
>encouraged by the postings here regarding the difficulty of Kodachrome
>scans. Is there any scanner that scans kodachrome well?  The other
>"requirement" I have is the potential future need to scan lots of slides. I
>only know of one scanner with bulk loader, the Nikon 5000.  Does anyone
>know if this scanner is any good on Kodachrome?  Are there other scanners
>with bulk loaders for mounted slides?
>       The new Minolta 5400 is intriguing, but I don't think there is a bulk
>loader for it.  Plus it seems to be at least 3X slower than the new
>Nikon5000.
>
>Thanks for any input.
>
>Ed Lusby
>
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