Should I upgrade to Coolscan 4000 from Coolscan IV?

kiemchacsu

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Hi guys,

I am in a chance to purchase a CS 4000. I am using a CS IV and totally feel okay with it, please advise if I should throw a couple hundreds of bulks into the CS 4000? I already knew that CS 4000 vs CS IV as below:

- 4000 dpi vs 2900 dpi
- 4.2 dmax vs 3.6 dmax
- firewire 1394 vs usb
- faster scanning vs slower scanning

BUT, is it worth it since I shoot mainly BW (I assume that higher dmax is more valuable with color film?) and I did blew up my photos to 1.2m x 0.8m with scanned file from CS IV and output is excellent?

Any thought? Thanks in advance.
 
haha, I just did that on friday :)

resolution is a bit higher, yes, it is a bit faster, but the main reason I got it was so that I could modify the SA-21 to scan full rolls. Thats a tremendous timesafer the way I work.
When I come home and I have a single roll with me, I just put it in the scanner, and when I am back from dinner, I have 36 scanned TIF files, ready to be converted and edited :)
 
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