Art and Carlisle, Thank you both for your response to my question concerning the Coolscan V vs the Super Coolscan 5000.
Carlisle, my slide collection consists of over 10,000 slides. While I am sure I will choose not to digitize all of them, a bulk loader is a major consideration. Thanks, for bringing this to my attention. To scan these one at a time would take hundreds, if not thousands, of hours. I assume the bulk loaders readily handle standard slide mounts. Probably 90% of my slides are in the older standard Kodak cardboard mounts. The more recent ones are the Kodak plastic mounts so I hope they would not present a problem. Art, concerning the 14 bit A/D vs the 16 bit A/D--I will have to assume that the CCD sensors in both Nikon scanners are of equal quality, so other things being equal, I guess the 16 bit A/D should be expected to give slightly improved scans. Also, the slides I will be scanning fall into a wide range of densities so that is a major variable. I really have no way to test both scanners prior to purchase. I can't even find a store locally that actually stocks either one. They are special order items only. Once again, thank you both for your input. Frank ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
