35mm neg. scanner advice

I want to preserve some 35mm negatives and so I need advice on a negative scanner. Don't mind paying for a descent one, but not a top of the line. What say you Nikonites? Thanks in advance.

Steve G.

I ponied up for a Plustek OptiScan 8200i Ai. I can see the grain in my old Kodachrome 25 slideswhen scanned at full resolution.

There are not much in the way of options any more. The Plustek mentioned above will produce decent images though not great ones but it is also a good bit less expensive that mine. I use a Nikon Super CoolScan LS-8000 ED because it lets me scan both Hasselblad and 35mm film but Nikon stopped makiing them years ago and the software only works with XP and earlier and it require a Firewire card. I got an older IBM laptop with both XP and a built in Firewire card and it has essentially become a part of the scanner. There are some other scanner programs which will work with it but they are not as compatible as the Nikon software.

480sparky said:

I ponied up for a Plustek OptiScan 8200i Ai. I can see the grain in my old Kodachrome 25 slideswhen scanned at full resolution.

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What are these selling for?

I own this Epson scanner which scans both 35mm film and slides. It does a decent job.

andergar said:

What are these selling for?

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I paid just north of $400.