Hi Alex,
> Austin, I noticed you use Leafscan 45.
I do.
> So I begun to consider selling my leg and arm (and also my wife, car,
> house and children) :-) for Nikon LS9000 till encountered people's
> recommendation to go Leafscan 45 route instead.
> What can you say about this one ? Can it still compete wuality-wise
> with contemporary machines home-oriented such as Nikon LS9000 ?
I am not sure. I primarily use it for B&W, and do little color with it. It
is a three pass color scanner, so scanning times will be 3x as long. I scan
medium format B&W at 4 minutes per scan (the secret is not using the default
exposure time, but setting it to minimum...which is plenty for
negatives...for slides, you want to use "optimum", so it's even a lot
slower).
> Is
> using Leafscan 45 indeed as much bother as I suspect comparative to
> desktop film scanners ?
Probably less of a bother, if you understand setpoints and tonal curves. It
has a very basic, but entirely capable user interface...and IMO, has
everything you need...setpoints and tonal curves.
> I suspect Leafscan is Mac only, am I wrong ?
You are wrong. I use it with W2k.
> I'm PC user. I don't shoot B&W (at least for now), neither planning on
> that in forseable future.
Then I might suggest a different scanner, especially if you are shooting
slides. The advantage, for me, of the Leafscan is it is a true grayscale
scanner, not an RGB scanner as all other scanners are, and I believe it
gives exceptional B&W results. I also do not find any need to use USM, as
everyone else seems to require. My scans are tack sharp:
(not that you can see much from a web image...)
> Any comments on it are appreciated (as well as any hints to Leafscan 45
> active user groups).
Yahoo has an active Leafscan user's group:
Regards,
Austin
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