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| Thread ID: 121717 | 2011-11-08 22:29:00 | Advise for a film and/or photo scanner | hotkiwi (6379) | Press F1 |
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| 1242550 | 2011-11-08 22:29:00 | friends, I will finally have some time to digitize my old photos (up to 30 years old), and I have their negatives as well. So, am looking for a 35 mm film scanner and/or photo scanner (most pics 9x13 cm or 10x15 cm). i see that the Nikon Coolscan gets a lot of good credits but is also fairly expensive, and honestly, these old pics were not made on expensive camera's. Do people have any exprience with it ? i have about 800 pics/negatives, so probably worthwhile to do it myself and not have it done ? Thanks |
hotkiwi (6379) | ||
| 1242551 | 2011-11-09 05:09:00 | Yes the Nikon Coolscan would be one of the better one's I had a Minolta Dimage and it was ok but not up with the Coolscans. Have a look at some of the better Epson flatbed or multifunction scanners some of them have film scanning capability and will be fine for home use plus can be still usefull after all your Negs have been scanned unlike a dedicated film scanner. Be prepared for a lot of hours and a bit of a learning curve getting the colours correct and removing dust etc, you will be suprised how big a tiny spec of dust of a hair looks once the neg is blown up to print size. I would keep your Negative scan to around 2400dpi which will give you around a 7.5 megapixel image if the quality is not there you can always downsize in photo software if needed, If your Negs are quite grainy I would scan at only 1200dpi about 2 megapixel fine for 10x15 prints Also check trademe for film scanners some good bargins at times. |
winaa (16560) | ||
| 1242552 | 2011-11-09 06:13:00 | Get a new USB Slide/Film Scanner via TradeMe for about $80, should do the job to the standard required | Ofthesea (14129) | ||
| 1242553 | 2011-11-09 07:10:00 | Yes the Nikon Coolscan would be one of the better one's I had a Minolta Dimage and it was ok but not up with the Coolscans. Have a look at some of the better Epson flatbed or multifunction scanners some of them have film scanning capability and will be fine for home use plus can be still usefull after all your Negs have been scanned unlike a dedicated film scanner. Be prepared for a lot of hours and a bit of a learning curve getting the colours correct and removing dust etc, you will be suprised how big a tiny spec of dust of a hair looks once the neg is blown up to print size. I would keep your Negative scan to around 2400dpi which will give you around a 7.5 megapixel image if the quality is not there you can always downsize in photo software if needed, If your Negs are quite grainy I would scan at only 1200dpi about 2 megapixel fine for 10x15 prints Also check trademe for film scanners some good bargins at times. Thanks, saw also people promoting the Epson V330 (at around 325 $) and the Canon 9000F (at 425 $). Quite a lot of money, but also scans full A4 when I am done with the photos. |
hotkiwi (6379) | ||
| 1242554 | 2011-11-09 07:11:00 | Get a new USB Slide/Film Scanner via TradeMe for about $80, should do the job to the standard required Would that really give some quality ? What you pay is what you get ? |
hotkiwi (6379) | ||
| 1242555 | 2011-11-09 09:48:00 | If they are not pro or serious amateur photographs flatbeds would do imho. The advantage with flatbed is that you can load it up like 20 or so ... slides or 4 strips of negs and it would do a auto detect auto scan auto save for each one. I have the Coolscan 4000, you need to insert each slide one by one unless you have the multi feeder attachment and for strips, for some reason the Coolscan does not like long strips, it only likes shorter strips. Unless maybe if you have the glass strip holder which might work with the longer strips of 8 shots? I think the shorter strips are the ones with 6 - that you get processed from most minilabs. More pro labs use 8 I think when you request no prints - develop only. I think you could be able to get a scanner for around $200? I got a V700 Epson for like $700 .. and that one does larger roll film than 35mm and even sheet film 8x10". |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1242556 | 2011-11-09 20:12:00 | I can vouch for the Nikon Coolscan. Have used it before with good results. 800 plus negatives.....maybe see what sort of price a camera / film shop such as Hannafins would give you for scanning them and weigh up the cost they offer verse the cost of a scanner and time if you did it yourself. You could ask for a straight copy to digital with no repair work or let them offer you a second price of copy/colour correction/fix dust spots etc. Next option as mentioned above would be a flatbed scanner with a negative / slide holder. We no longer do copying / digital of slides and negatives in house any more. Like a lot of things, all done under contract though we still do in house the tidy up of dust spots, etc ourselves off the digitals. |
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