[filmscanners] Re: Nikon Scanners

["Frank & Lila Mullins" <spencer139@cox.net>]

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

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