I just bought a Nikon Coolscan 50ED film/slide scanner the other day - $1300... It's 4000 dpi - the equivalent of 21 megapixels - and 14 bit colour. It takes about 30 - 240 seconds per slide, depending on options chosen.
So far I've just tried out a few slides and negs and have ended up with 60 MB TIFFS.
So far the results have been terrific. The only issue is that with about 2000 slides and another 3000 negs at a minute each, that's about 80 hours of continuous scanning and 300 TB of files....
I haven't actually tried any astro type stuff yet but I will and see what they come out like and report back sometime.
Susan
and sorry about the stupid
