Dedicated film scanners are dying out and likely to get more expensive before they disappear completely from the shops. I have a "Plustek" scanner which I bought in about 2002, then it cost me $490 but now in 2008 the shop no longer stocks scanners. -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Dyer-Bennet Sent: 07 September 2008 04:18 To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: Re: Trying to resucitate old scanner Chris wrote: > > Scanners are now so cheap and high quality that it is scarcely worth > bothering with the old one. > Not film scanners, which is what that model is. Not much I think is worth considering under $500 new. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
