Hello to all Contax users

[dosh 52]

Hi, I am a new member and would to introduce myself. I am a travel photgrapher still using Contax bodies and prime lenses with 35mm slide film, although this may have been discontinued when you read this Over the last ten years my work has concentrated on South East Asia. I still oprefer film over digital as I have to do all the thinking and not the camera. Can anyone recommend a good negative scanner up to semi professional standards and is the all in one (scanner, printer etc) to be avoided. Hope you help. Will posting some of my work soon.
dosh 52

 

[Stereohans]

Hello Dosh,

the best scanner money can buy is still the Nikon Coolscan 5000. But don't forget it is discontinued meanwhile and you should hurry to get one...

Greetings, Hans

P. S. Those all-in-one solutions never reached the level of a specialized negative scanner.

 

[dosh 52]

Thanks for the info. How does the Nikon cool scan 5000 compare to the Epson V700 or V750. Just a thought.
dosh 52

 

[pfharrison]

The Nikon is a lot faster for scanning individual slides, It is 35mm only and only Scans Black and white in 8 bit colour depth as compared to 16 bit for the Epson V700. I scan 35mm slides on the Nikon and medium format colour and all my Black and White on the epson. The Epson will scan at higher resolutions, although the lenses tend not be able to record enough detail to require the higher sanning resolutions of the epson the 4000 dpi of the Nikon id perfectly adequate in my opinion. Scanning with the Epson tends to be slow and rather fidly as it sometimes cannot detect the image edges.

Paul