FLAAR site is not too critical of the 2000 but I think a search for a cheap
Polariod Sprint Scan 4000 would be called for. Depends on the quality you really need.
Polaroid SprintScan 4000.
As a "used old tech" item, the Standard SCSI port on the Polaroid may outweigh any minor losses to the nikon. At 4000dpi I believe you can tweak it to be as good or better then the Nikon. I have a minolta slide scanner w/ a really annoying hard to find SCSI connector in the back and it has annoyed me since I bought the stupid thing which of course became incompatible w/ XP.
Advansys SCSI cards were offered dirt cheap on the web for awhile and had native drivers in XP.. apparently this is the end of that. Compatibility scan w/ Vista said the card was a "no go". Probably dead in 7 as well but I'm not sure... I've left the card in but have gone to USB totally anyways.
IF I had the cash or the need, the jazz II (2750dpi across the entire bed, focus adjustments available) scanner on ebay seems like a sweet deal (I have no clue who the seller is BTW
)and should give you slide scans equal to the Nikon. Most of the knock against it was at a price point (and it being a microtek product), which is obviously destroyed on ebay.
Kodak Creo iQsmart2 and Creo iQsmart 3 with oXYgen scanner software replace
A bit on the Polaroid ($900 used on Amazon).
Polaroid 4000
Last edited by jeffkrol; 01-03-2010 at 12:55 PM.