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Subject: Re: [OM] Film scanner
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:48:41 +0100
Well Matthew, you and I have about the same sort of luck then ;-).

I read in the latest Amateur Photographer that there is a new scanner out, the Reflecta DgitDia 3600. It can scan at 3600 or 1800 ppi, has a slide viewer with backlight and various other useful gizmos for scanning slides. Its main claim to fame will be its slide magazine. It looks a bit like a slide projector with a straight slide magazine so you can scan a whole magazine of slides automatically.

It will cost £730 sterling, so that will be about $800 in the USA I imagine ;-). I should think that its usefulness will be limited by the RAM available on the host computer - until Ed Hamrick comes up with a driver for it and then it will save the scans to disk.

Chris

On Friday, Aug 22, 2003, at 21:21 Europe/London, Matthew Born wrote:

For what it's worth, N*kon has a $200 rebate floating around on the 4000 right now. The folks on the N*kon digest are talking about its replacement,
which is apparently in the pipeline. I have not paid particularly close
attention to any of the details since, I would imagine, lots of it is
speculation at this point, and I'm divesting myself of N*kon equipment.
Nonetheless, the rebate makes the 4000 a pretty good buy right now. Rest assured, however, should I buy one, the replacement will be cheaper, scan at 12,000 dpi, have a dynamic range of about 9.6, communicate with any computer by telepathy (no cables), and having scanning times at max res (with ICE and about 12 passes) around 1 second. Oh, and it will include both Vuescan and
SilverFast. And will do medium format.

Cheers,
Matthew Born
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