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Richard, I have been using the Canon FS 4000 for 8 months now and have scanned maybe 500 transparencies and negatives. I have been very happy with the scanner and have found the scans to be easily sharp enough for 8 x 10. My conclusion is that the Canon offers great value for money, when compared with the Nikon 4000, although I have to admit that I haven't tried other film scanners. A couple of negatives with the scanner are the limited D Max (resulting in digital artifacts in dark areas of the occasional slide), and a fairly consistent magenta/purple cast when scanning transparencies. I mainly scan Provia 100, but have heard other coments on this color cast problem. Hope this is of some help. David > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-scan@leben.com [mailto:owner-scan@leben.com]On Behalf Of > Richard Martin > Sent: Sunday, 12 May 2002 4:12 a.m. > To: Scan List > Subject: Canon FS 4000 & Minolta Scan Elite II Questions > > > Hi List: > > I am in the market for a film scanner (my first) and have > narrowed my choices down to two - the Canon FS 4000 and the > Minolta Scan Elite II, both of which are in my price range. I am > running a Pentium 4 with 512MB ram, 40GB HD, and Win XP Home > Edition. I would use the scanner mostly for slides, not > negatives. > While the Minolta appears to have user-friendly software and > apparently can be used as a stand-alone product as well as > through Photoshop, I am concerned about a banding or streaking > problem that some reviewers have reported, especially in the > shadows. I do a fair amount of low-light photography and while I > realize that this type of image is probably difficult for any > scanner, the banding or streaking issue has me worried. Any > thoughts? > I am leaning toward the Canon, partly because of the higher > imput res, partly because it appears to be a very sharp scanner, > but most especially because I saw no reports of banding or > streaking with this unit. I don't see that you can use this as a > stand-alone scanner but I think I have enough memory to scan > through Photoshop (I have version 7), at least for the size > files I'll mostly be working with. The printer I am currently > using is the Epson C80, their heavy-weight matte paper, with the > image size somewhere between 5 x 7 and 8 x 10. And making prints > is mostly what I want to do (but archiving too, via a CD > burner). > Canon's website doesn't mention XP but I assume this scanner > is compatible with XP. Am I wrong? > Bottom line: would the Canon be a better choice for me, given > what I want to do? Any downside to this choice? > I'm still pretty new to this digital stuff (though not to > photography itself) so please forgive me if the above sounds > naive or uninformed. I really could use some help on this. Feel > free to email me privately if you wish. > > Richard > > ===== > Richard Martin specializes in Cityscape and Waterscape stock > photography as well as Children's Portraiture. E-mail: marphoto@yahoo.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > http://launch.yahoo.com > - > Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate > subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. > - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions.
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