[filmscanners] Re: Nikon LS-40 vs Polaroid SS4000

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Arthur Entlich wrote:

In my haste, I made a few errors which made reading this difficult:

It should read:

 > If you can get a SS4000 for a good price, I would grab it.  It was,
 > and is, a great scanner.  Both units are supported by Silverfast,
 > both units can use the full features of Insight.
 >
 > The person who will best benefit from the new features of the SS4000+
 > versus the SS4000 are:
 >
 > 1) if you can use Firewire, (Mac or Windows beyond 98SE) you get a
 > faster scan.
 >
 > 2) if you shoot or have a lot of Kodachrome or very dense films were
 > even low shadow noise would harm the resultant image.
 >
 > 3) If you have a very dusty environment and are too lazy to run the
 > brush through once a week.
 >
 > 4) If you have no access to the SS4000 (for a price of below $800 to
 > 900) you should consider the SS4000+.  I suspect they are few and far
 > between)  I've seen a few on ebay used,
 > and they sell for more than the clearance prices (which were about
 > $550 US), typically.  My experience is not too many people are
 > selling their SS4000 scanners regardless of when they bought them.
 >
 > Art
  >


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