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Slide Scanners
Between me, my father, and other family members, we have over 5000
35mm slides and negatives that we want to scan. At prices I've seen for scanning services it seems cheaper to buy a good film scanner. I see that Nikon and Braun have scanners with autofeed slide magazines. I'd appreciate any comments on these or other scanners. Thanks. |
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Slide Scanners
wrote in message ... Between me, my father, and other family members, we have over 5000 35mm slides and negatives that we want to scan. At prices I've seen for scanning services it seems cheaper to buy a good film scanner. I see that Nikon and Braun have scanners with autofeed slide magazines. I'd appreciate any comments on these or other scanners. Thanks. If you have the extreme patience and dedication and are willing to spend weeks devoted to the scanner to scan 5000 slides carefully and with good quality. Consider paring down your slides to a few hundred of your very best and have those done professionally. |
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"Frank Arthur" wrote: wrote in message ... Between me, my father, and other family members, we have over 5000 35mm slides and negatives that we want to scan. At prices I've seen for scanning services it seems cheaper to buy a good film scanner. I see that Nikon and Braun have scanners with autofeed slide magazines. I'd appreciate any comments on these or other scanners. I'd recommend avoiding the Braun. It's probably a decent scanner, but in reading the scanning forums over the past 6 or 7 years, I've seen no mention of it whatsoever, and lots of discussion from people using Nikon, Minolta, Epson scanners. If you have a problem with a Nikon scanner, you'll get quick responses from people with experience. Nikon makes two scanners: Coolscan V and Coolscan 5000 (also the 9000, but that's for larger film and is expensive). The Coolscan V will require you loading your slides 4 or 6 at a time, but is somewhat cheaper. For really fussy scanning of dark or underexposed slides, the 5000 has a multisampling function that should, in theory, help somewhat. Maybe. The Epson V500 _should_ be _almost_ as good as the Nikon. Maybe. My best guess is that in an 8x12 print, you would be able to see the difference (with Nikon 5000 scans looking better). Maybe. If you have the extreme patience and dedication and are willing to spend weeks devoted to the scanner to scan 5000 slides carefully and with good quality. Consider paring down your slides to a few hundred of your very best and have those done professionally. Paring down is good advice. A lot of your slides will be less than sharp, and won't need quality scanning, although you'll still want to scan some of those for the historical value. Those you can send out for cheap low-res scans. However, with a Nikon Coolscan 5000, you'll probably get better scans than you'd get from any scanning service that you can afford for 500 slides. Since you should be able to ebay the Nikon 5000 when you are done, the cost of a new one is less than the sticker price. Scanning even 500 slides is a lot of work. Slide scanners have limited DOF, and if a slide is warped, you may have to take it out of the mount to get the whole frame sharp. Etc. etc. etc. David J. Littleboy Tokyo, Japan |
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Between me, my father, and other family members, we have over 5000 35mm slides and negatives that we want to scan. At prices I've seen for scanning services it seems cheaper to buy a good film scanner. I see that Nikon and Braun have scanners with autofeed slide magazines. I'd appreciate any comments on these or other scanners. This was my project last summer. I used a Nikon 5000 ED with an autofeeder. It ended up being about 6000 slides and took about six weeks. The autofeeder is essential. It took about 3 minutes a slide, so I'd fill the feeder and check back occasionally. Digital ICE does a nice job of dust and scratch removal. The included software is quirky, but does a nice job including recovering useable images from 50 year old Kodachromes that appeared to have been heat damaged at some point. See http://www.classtech.com/New%20York%20After.jpg and the raw unprocessed version he http://www.classtech.com/New%20York%20Before.jpg How much work you will have to do before and after scanning depends on the condition of the slides, your goals, and your standards. I worked quite hard on some favorites including dusting before, multi pass scanning, and Photoshop after. Most, I just ran straight through. Here is one example, reduced resolution, but otherwise straight from the scanner: http://www.classtech.com/Teton%20Mirror%202.jpg Someone mentioned remounting. I had a few that would have been helped by that, but the image was not important enough to me. I bought the scanner off ebay and then resold it for almost the original purchase price. Oh, have lots of disc space. I ended up with about 120GB of lightly compressed JPEGs. You could easily need four times that for TIFFs. -- Doug |
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Frank Arthur wrote:
wrote in message ... Between me, my father, and other family members, we have over 5000 35mm slides and negatives that we want to scan. At prices I've seen for scanning services it seems cheaper to buy a good film scanner. I see that Nikon and Braun have scanners with autofeed slide magazines. I'd appreciate any comments on these or other scanners. Thanks. If you have the extreme patience and dedication and are willing to spend weeks devoted to the scanner to scan 5000 slides carefully and with good quality. Consider paring down your slides to a few hundred of your very best and have those done professionally. http://www.braun-phototechnik.de/E/P...anner4000.html First scanner I have seen that make use of slide projector parts. Standard DiN slide tray, and the body of the scanner does look like a Braun slide projector. |
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