Herb Chong wrote:
well, i bought a Nikon 4000ED and i have done about 1000 scans with it so far. every now and then, i wish i had bought the mounted slide feeder, but i haven't, so i have to do it the hard way, one at a time. it takes about 40-50 mounted slides at once. i experimented some turning off the Digital ICE but that led to so much work, even from visually clean slides under an 8X loupe, that i quickly turned it back on and leave it that way. there is some softening, but the alternative is a lot more work in front of the monitor. also, the softening is losing detail only when i am scanning Velvia taken with my macro lens. the Coolscan and other LED scanners have a terrible time with Kodachrome so i gave up on that almost right away. shot the last of my Kodachrome 25 and got some interesting but not really intended effects because of the heavy color casts that resulted and then my attempts to correct them. i don't shoot B&W anymore. if a slide looks like it might be interesting as B&W, i convert using the Channel mixer.
Herb....
Speaking of Kodachrome. Are there any scanners out there that handle Kodachrome well? I need to send out a bunch of slides to scan and am afraid to send it to the wrong place. I tried one outfit with some test slides and the color + dynamic range were terrible.
rg
