How about, just a good negative scanner, at a reasonable consumer price?

I don't want to piggyback on Lowrider10's thread; how about just a good negative scanner, independent of price but not absurdly so?

Epson makes a v500 I think which is a flatbed scanner but with some film accessories. Look at Plustek for a dedicated 35mm film scanner, but you need to buy ones of their higher end models to get decent software and software features. But its Silverfast software is film "profile" driven with little adjustment for scan brightness.

Few people are using film these days which is why film scanners are becoming scarce with rumors that nikon has stopped producing them.

After I posted I thought about it; why would I want to shoot film and then scan it to digital? Or more to the point, why would I want to spend more money to do that? It would take one of the primary digital advantages, which is that all the costs are up front, and add to it the incremental cost of purchasing and developing film... to turn it into digital, and then accept all the work of processing the digital image as well.

I dunno. I love my film cameras. I'll still shoot with them every now and then. But I'm done romanticizing them, I think.

Mosca wrote in post #10242916
After I posted I thought about it; why would I want to shoot film and then scan it to digital?

One reason is to use some negatives films with high exposure latitude in the highlights, something that cannot be done with digital unless you bracket shots and are a a photoshop layers guru.

I think a lot of the scanning technology has come about due to people having large quantities of archived material that they want converted (that was my reason for buying my Epson scanner - v500 IIRC)