[jnovek]

B&Ws also scan poorly on it if the negatives are even a little bit dense. Tricky negatives that could still produce good images in the darkroom had no hope on the LS-2000.

[DidYaWipe]

Yeah, it's another one of those products that inexplicably collected cachet and reputation but was trash in reality.

I had a VCR of similar reputation, which also suffered from a noise-filled image coincidentally (the Panasonic AG-1960).