Re: Canon FS 4000

[HMSDOC@xxxxxxx]

<<  I am in the market for a film scanner (my first) and have
 > narrowed my choices down to two - the Canon FS 4000 >>


Richard,
I own the Canon FS4000 and am currently in the process of comparing it to a 
Polaroid SS 4000 Plus.  To make some comments regarding the Canon...I am very 
pleased with its construction and it is exceedingly sharp.  I find the 
Filmget software to be very clunky, which really isn't the worst thing in the 
world if you do your levels, curves, color correction etc in an image editing 
program like Photoshop.  In addition, the color renedition of Filmget is not 
the best, though 1.0.3 is significanty improved.  However, I myself find 
Vuescan to be much better software for the Canon FS4000 than Filmget, so that 
is what I use.  The scanner is very slow.

In terms of image quality..it depends what you are looking for.  My scans 
have been exceptionally sharp and detailed and color has been quite good with 
Vuescan.  However, there is noise in the shadows and so I think it is 
important to decide #1) How fussy you are, #2) How large you intend to view 
the images on the computer screen, #3)how large you intend to print out the 
hard copy.

I have been using the scanner on XP with no problem and I believe there are 
official XP drivers on the web site.

Let me know if I can give you any other opinions or info.

Howard
HMSDOC@aol.com
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