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| Thread ID: 83120 | 2007-09-20 01:54:00 | Scanning 35mm Slides | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 593165 | 2007-10-04 21:16:00 | i see that this has been resolved, might get one of those devices as well. also i want to be able to convert from old old school 8mm films to digital. would it be best to use a service or is there something i can buy that does this. similar lines and such, its just that we have many hours of 8mm film from when my dad was a child, and half the family were not dead. sorry for the thread stealing :D |
Cho (12330) | ||
| 593166 | 2007-10-05 00:42:00 | i see that this has been resolved, might get one of those devices as well. also i want to be able to convert from old old school 8mm films to digital. would it be best to use a service or is there something i can buy that does this. similar lines and such, its just that we have many hours of 8mm film from when my dad was a child, and half the family were not dead. sorry for the thread stealing :D My experience which seems to be common to others I have chatted to is that if you are considering scanning negatives then be prepared to pay a lot of money for the equipment. Probably going commercial would be better. Cheap equipment (including mine) will not produce acceptable results on negatives but is fine with slides. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 593167 | 2007-10-05 03:11:00 | I have a fuji digital camera that has a micro macro setting and will focus down so that you can fill the frame with a 35mm slide or negative. I have rigged up a copy stand out of an old enlarger and with reflected window light can photograph negs and slides much faster than a scanner. The resolution is very acceptable to me and I have converted hundreds of family photos to digital this way and put them onto DVD's for my family. | heaton (3697) | ||
| 593168 | 2007-12-20 20:34:00 | Well I've taken the plunge an bought a Plustek OpticFilm 7200 from a dealer on Trade Me ($400 new). It arrived today and if it wasn't for Bathurst I'd be getting stuck in to my pile of slides on Sunday ( I probably won't be able to resist having a go on a few anyway)! How are you finding it Grimy. I just found another shoe box full of slides and negatives (Some negatives were taken with a Box Brownie of similar circa 1930) so it looks like I might have to splash out on something decent. :) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 593169 | 2007-12-20 22:30:00 | Hm!! $400 for something to scan negatives. It sounds marginal to me - from comments by other more experienced people I would have expected to have to pay much more for really good results. Certainly as I have mentioned before my own scanner is very good on slides -but despite the claims of HP just lousy at scanning negatives. I suspect a lot of interest would be shown if $400 could produce what we would all like. I hope Grimy you try it with negatives and keep us informed on your progress and results. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 593170 | 2007-12-21 08:18:00 | Oops. I could make lots of excuses, but I won't. Truth is, I haven't really used it yet! It came with Silverfast software which had a free upgrade to a newer version, which took a bit longer to sort out than it should (supplied product key from Silverfast was wrong). The software certainly seems to have all sorts of adjustments and tweaks, but I tried a few slides on quickscan, and they looked okay. Will definitely get stuck into some scanning in the New Year and let you know what its like. I'm only doing slides. |
Grimy (3041) | ||
| 593171 | 2008-01-26 01:16:00 | @ Grimy: Well I've taken the plunge an bought a Plustek OpticFilm 7200 from a dealer on Trade Me ($400 new). It arrived today and if it wasn't for Bathurst I'd be getting stuck in to my pile of slides on Sunday ( I probably won't be able to resist having a go on a few anyway)! I'd also love to hear how that unit is working out as I have a friend with limited time left in this world who has about 1000 slides to scan. We plan to put all the pics on the net as a teaching resource, but working on a budget so the Plustek might be the solution. How has your experience with this unit been? Cheers Digikiwi |
digikiwi (10681) | ||
| 593172 | 2008-01-26 07:23:00 | I am using a Plustec 7200 unit and am scanning some 4000 slides mostly taken in the early 1960's. I was really shocked to find how much the slides had deteriorated in the last 5-7 years. Many have developed serious colour shifts despite having been stored in the dark and many are showing what I assume is a fungus attack which is effecting the emulsion surface. The Plustec has good software supplied to manipulate the scan but I prefer to have the scan open up in my photo editor and work from there. I have found the intellscan works better than the quick scan setting. I have found that a slide in good condition can be printed without any post scan processing but unfortunately I have to work on most scans due to the poor condition of the slide . At this stage I am doing only the minimum post scan processing, just removing colour casts, scratches and the effects of the emulsion breakdown. This averages 20-30 mins per slide compared to about a 30 secs to a minute for a good one. The plustec also comes with a film strip holder and I have experimental and successfully scanned colour neg and black and white film. I am scanning at 2400dpi and end up with a 39 meg tiff file. |
tutaenui (1724) | ||
| 593173 | 2008-01-26 07:40:00 | I still haven't started with mine yet. Sorry. | Grimy (3041) | ||
| 593174 | 2008-01-26 09:41:00 | If you are into mucking around and adapting a bit of gear you can make an adapter for your camera and then just re photograph them. I made an adapter using an old koken filter holder. The results were quite reasonable or at least ok. Have a look here: i50.photobucket.com | Joe Blogs (35) | ||
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