For me, it is the speed and color accuracy that brought me into Nikon, for
slides the color is very accurate directly from Nikonscan. Consider you have
to scan thousands of negative and slide I won't choose anything slower.
The DOF is a issue for mounted slides but it is not a problem for film strip
so it is ok for most of my collections, all negatives are in strip form and
half of my slides are uncut.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Moose"
> So, in summary, the Nikons are great - except for some uncorrectable
> performance issues that degrade images? You didn't get around to
> mentioning the shallow DOF issue many have reported with the Nikons.
>
> Thanks guys, for reminding me how happy I am to have chosen the Canon
> FS4000. :-)
>
> Diffuse light source, no mirror, deep DOF.
>
> Moose
>
> C.H.Ling wrote:
>> Yes, hazy is still there, 4000ED is famous for flare, I believe the
>> problem is due to the poor lens system. I had lots of hard time in
>> scanning high contrast slides. I remember a worse ... I sent the scanner
>> to N*kon for through cleaning, they did charged me for that but there was
>> zero improvement.
>>
>
> Ken Norton wrote:
>> The Nikon 4x and 5x series scanners have a mirror. ... As it is below,
>> dust will enter the film gate
>> and settle downward onto the mirror.
>>
>> ... If the mirror is dirty, the image is slightly diffused--not at all
>> unlike shooting a picture through a dirty filter.
>> ... Besides, as I have been scanning mostly negs these days, the
>> high-contrast of a Velvia slide isn't present so I don't get the
>> diffusion AND the diffusion goes the other way--dark bleeds into light
>> areas.
>>
>> Once in a while I'll get a streak on the images when a dust particle
>> settles on the sensor, but can usually dislodge it with either a blast of
>> air or by turning the scanner face down and rapping on the case--followed
>> by more air blasts, etc.
>>
>> To put all this in perspective, this haze issue is about the only real
>> issue with the Nikons. Other than the light-source which is more
>> columnated (accentuating grain), the Nikons are built like tanks and have
>> no bad
>> habits. I can recommend them without hesitation.
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