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| Thread ID: 74309 | 2006-11-17 22:29:00 | Can anyone recommend a scanner, which does colour slides? | ssssss (2100) | Press F1 |
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| 500153 | 2006-11-17 22:29:00 | I have 800 old colour slides, which I would like to turn into good quality digital images. Can anyone recommend a scanner for this, which would do the job as quickly as possible? I believe it should be possible to do a number of slides with one scan. I imagine it won't be easy to find one of these, as colour slides are now way out of date. Thanks. |
ssssss (2100) | ||
| 500154 | 2006-11-17 22:53:00 | My son was very successful did about 400 with an Epson 1670 probally improved heaps now 2 years old | Arnie (6624) | ||
| 500155 | 2006-11-17 23:00:00 | CanoScan D1250U2F. Does them one at a time. If you want good quality images, doing a bunch of them at a time is going to result in files that are astronomical in size to preserve all the detail a slide is capable of. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 500156 | 2006-11-17 23:44:00 | Instead of buying a new scanner you could try this www.abstractconcreteworks.com Haven't tried it yet. |
wmoore (6009) | ||
| 500157 | 2006-11-17 23:56:00 | Instead of buying a new scanner you could try this www.abstractconcreteworks.com Haven't tried it yet. That Backlighter page looks very interesting and well worth a try. I have a Microtek ScanMaker 5800 which came with a 35mm slide attachement for no extra price. Works great but before I got this scanner I simply set up the old slide projector and snapped away with my digital camera - the results were very good indeed and it was quick to do. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 500158 | 2006-11-18 00:44:00 | just from personal expreose the cannon pixmas are very good scanners and i would say they can do color slides and i recomend the cannons to any one they are some of the hard were u can bye i am running at home a cannon digi cam and a cannon ip6000 and when i was in oz we had a cannon printer scanner it did every thing i wanted it to do with very high qulaty pics | altrounson (11366) | ||
| 500159 | 2006-11-18 04:01:00 | I understood that any flatbed scanner will do slides but it requires something like a backlighter. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 500160 | 2006-11-18 08:13:00 | If you want the ultimate quality for coping slides you won't get it from a flatbed scanner. You need to go to a dedicated film scanner. Unfortunately these tend to be a little expensive. I have not looked at these for a while but Nikon and Minolta make good ones. I suggest you look up some of the specialist Digital Photography magazines to see what is available. The British magazines seem to be best in this area. | tutaenui (1724) | ||
| 500161 | 2006-11-18 08:44:00 | gidday, These scanners are getting on a bit now, but you might find one,I had good results from mine, HP scanjet 3570c, only does one at a time though. cheers, Robby |
Robby (3123) | ||
| 500162 | 2006-11-18 12:45:00 | Well, there's a range of options for you. To get an image with comparable quality to a 35mm slide you will have a least a 30MB file before any compression. Jpeg will reduce the quality so try .tiff or .psd as as a format. 800 slides at 30MB means 40 CD's (at 20 slides/CD if you are lucky):stare::stare: | R2x1 (4628) | ||
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