New scanner

[johnridley]

Thanks to a memory nudge from the GT list, I went up to Best Buy and found that the excellent Epson V500 scanner is on sale for $199 again. kevinnickerson bought one a few months back and likes it, that's good enough for me. I didn't buy one before the sale was off then, but I have one in hand now.

I looked at other scanners, but once you've used a Digital ICE capable scanner, the rest are just pure garbage and a waste of time. This has the latest version, probably v4 or v5, whereas the Nikon had v1. Supposedly the new software does an outstanding job of automatically correcting age-related film color shifts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ICE

I've put off my slide scanning project for several years now, because the Nikon LS30 scanner that I have, while quite nice, only scans one slide at a time. I had actually gotten the LS30 out of the basement a couple of months ago, and 2 or 3 weekends ago I installed the SCSI card. Then it's only a matter of about an hour of wrestling with installing just the right driver in just the right order and rebooting a few times to get the scanner running. I was thinking about getting started on the project again this weekend while half the house was out at Capricon.

I also got to use up the Best Buy gift card which I thought I'd never use, because I don't do Best Buy anymore. (a couple of years back they came right out and said they didn't want the business of bargain shoppers; that's me, so to heck with them. Unless there's a really good sale going on...)

Now to put my Nikon and my old Canon flatbed on eBay and see if I can recoup the $199. It's a bummer the ADF for the V500 is also $199. Supply and demand I suppose.

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[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm going to go unload the LS30 on eBay. I paid $750 for it, but that's pushing 10 years ago and they're still going for over $200, which is more than I paid for this (better) replacement.

[c0nsumer.livejournal.com]

Oh, and just so you know, I didn't try to clean up any of those scans. They are straight out of the scanner. The reason they are so small, though, is because they are 110. :(