Originally posted by tuco VueScan also allows multiple scanning or sampling of the image for supported scanners. That helps bring in more higlights and reduce film grain noise. They say 16 sample will eliminate gain noise but, gee, that's a long scan.
I think you'd be happy with the V700. Go for it!
If you can`t afford Coolscan 9000 then go for Coolscan 8000. It is the same scanner, the same quality, but 2 times cheaper. These goues on ebay for 800USD time by time. Most expencive cases - till 1100 USD (like I bought year ago - but with glass carrier).
I did really hard evaluation, lurked around scanner half a year. Bought Epson pro v750m and... was not satisfied. Bought Coolscan 8000. And got satisfaction.
Main difference from Coolscan 9000... Oldest model has banding if you scan without Super CCD. It means scaner uses all three sensors and dark areas of picture shows lines.
So, one just need to scan everything with SuperCCD - three times longher than 9000 model, but who cares?
I am puting 4 645 velvia slides for night into scanner, make it to chose 8x sampling, CCD superscan. And it works three hours approximately.
At the morning I put in next slides and go to work. And it scans again.
Then I have 8 super perfect big 16bit TIFFS for post processing, or for archiving.
Although I have 6x9 Fuji camera too. These two files after sacnning is hard to open. Some 30 seconds till my laptop opens these 1/2 gigabyte files.