 Piper Lehman |
Leasing a film scanner Hi, everyone. I just wanted to offer some info I've found while researching the market for film scanners. I found a company who will lease items over $2,000 to "businesses." The company is called CDW, and the number to call regarding their lease programs is 800 356 8291 They have 2- and 3-year plans with the option to buy at the end. Kind of like a car lease but without the interest payments! The woman on the phone quoted me a price of $107 per mo for 3 years on a $2,000 film scanner. The price drops to $77 a mo. for 3 years. The "balloon" payment at the end is $1. They also have a "fair-market value" plan for those who wish to trade in their equipment in the end. It's a little lower per month, but not much. This option would be ideal for those items like PCs and total systems that would be outdated or obsolete at the end of the payment term. Of course, the more expensive the item is to begin with, the more advantageous this last lease option would be. Hope this info is helpful to some of you. As a side note about film scanners, I just purchased the Prime Film 1800U by Pacific Image at Ebay for $145 (USD). This is a handy little scanner for web purposes. Optical res is 1800 dpi with 36 bit color mode. Not sure what the actual dynamic range is, but I've seen 3.2 quoted elsewhere. This scanner will scan individual 35mm slides -- mounted or unmounted--and 35mm negative film. I would highly recommend finding this scanner with the SilverFast AI scanner software included (Mine did NOT come with SF). I downloaded a free trial of SilverFast from their web site: www.SilverFast.com. Hope this helps somebody!!
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