Oh, I forgot to mention that I believe at least their high end products scan in 16 bits per channel. But once again, I'm new here and don't know too many details yet. I'm not sure why you make it sound like there's little to no difference between scanning in 8, 10, 12, 14, or 16 bits though. You're obviously limited by the dynamic range of both the camera and paper/negative/film but 16 bits gives you much finer granularity and, assuming you can capture a higher dynamic range than a monitor can display, you've got room to do a little tone mapping. I don't remember the usual numbers off hand though.
I just started working for Kodak in the Document Imaging group a few weeks ago. They're responsible for developing all of Kodak's scanners. I assume that includes film scanners but I'm not sure. I don't know which team you were a part of but DI is most definitely not getting stripped down. They just moved to a really nice building back in April which is probably why they're able to knock down the old one. Being new around here, I'm still not very familiar with most of their products but the high end ones are really nice. They're incredibly fast and very good quality. I did a search for the HR-500 that you mentioned and saw that it has been discontinued. Looks like the HR line is 7 years old at this point... not exactly the latest and greatest technology. But anyway, rest assured that while the film side of Kodak is going down the tubes, their digital stuff is doing quite well.
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Oh, I forgot to mention that I believe at least their high end products scan in 16 bits per channel. But once again, I'm new here and don't know too many details yet. I'm not sure why you make it sound like there's little to no difference between scanning in 8, 10, 12, 14, or 16 bits though. You're obviously limited by the dynamic range of both the camera and paper/negative/film but 16 bits gives you much finer granularity and, assuming you can capture a higher dynamic range than a monitor can display, you've got room to do a little tone mapping. I don't remember the usual numbers off hand though.
I just started working for Kodak in the Document Imaging group a few weeks ago. They're responsible for developing all of Kodak's scanners. I assume that includes film scanners but I'm not sure. I don't know which team you were a part of but DI is most definitely not getting stripped down. They just moved to a really nice building back in April which is probably why they're able to knock down the old one. Being new around here, I'm still not very familiar with most of their products but the high end ones are really nice. They're incredibly fast and very good quality. I did a search for the HR-500 that you mentioned and saw that it has been discontinued. Looks like the HR line is 7 years old at this point... not exactly the latest and greatest technology. But anyway, rest assured that while the film side of Kodak is going down the tubes, their digital stuff is doing quite well.