I have decided to pass on finding a good used Coolscan 2000 (like the one I bought, sold, and am going to re-sell).
I am going to have to save up longer (and at my work schedule, it may take me til summer to scrape together US$500 or so) but I think the 4000 is the way to go for me. I lose the issues with SCSI and Nikon’s lack of support for the 2000 under OS X (I could use VueScan, but I feel like Nikon’s drivers and software are going to be a better fit).
Reading the reviews makes for a pretty strong case.
So what will I do with this thing when I get my hands on it? I should take a cameraphone snap of my piles of slides and negatives . . . .
For one thing, I have a lot of black and white stuff I have never printed. I took a series of weekly trips to see a Habitat for Humanity house being built: it was an all-woman project and the cross-section of workers was interesting in itself. Beefy tradeswomen, somewhat overdressed Junior League matrons, college students, the lot. I have a lot of other texture and nature stuff, much of which I’ll have forgotten where they were taken . . .
It might be interesting to see what can be done with old color negatives as well . . . .
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