These Kodak 4050 scanners are beasts! 4050s have heavy steel frames. It takes three men to move one! The heavy steel frame keeps the high quality optics precisely aligned so the focus is exact and keeps the details of each image in exceptionally sharp focus.

When March Air force Base surplussed out their 4050 they had been using to scan the film from the U2 spy aircraft I was able to purchase it from a surplus dealer in the San Fernando valley. So many of my images are scanned on the very same scanner the U2s' images were scanned with! I apologize if my government was spying on your country. I do not approve of many of the spying and other warlike actions of my government.

I also shoot with a digital SLR now, a Nikon D200 that produces wonderful images too.

A dual monitor setup and a Kodak 4050 scanner.