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Scanning 35 mm slides or negatives

A local historian asked me to have 22 slides of paintings by a local artist scanned and cut to disk. It cost me $1.50 per slide for high resolution scans.

I have hundreds of interesting photos on 35 mm media which I'd like to digitize, but the cost would be prohibitive.

What's a good scanner that I might be able to get for reasonable money, maybe on eBay? Ideally, it'd handle mounted slides, filmstrips or individual unmounted slides.

Thanks,

J
 

dirttastesgood

Turbo Monkey
Dec 12, 2006
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There's one in the school photo lab. It may be broken but I'll find out and if it works you could mail them to me I could scan them up for you.
 

splat

Nam I am
John

Some flat bed scanners have the ability to scane Negatives and Un mounted slides, Many Moons ago I help people in out ID deptartment set up a HP scanner to scan negatives in ( which they then using photo shop made into photos ), the software had a special mode for that which set the scan light to a Brighter setting.

I also have seen some of the HP slide scanners but never saw the output.
 

H8R

Cranky Pants
Nov 10, 2004
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Most flat beds I've used suck at scanning transparencies. A good neg/film scanner will autofocus on the film surface to get crisp resolution. Flat beds can't do this.

Look for an older Minolta Scan Dual on eBay. I have one and it rocks. Nikon Coolscans are great too.

Whatever scanner you use, buy a copy of Vuescan. It is worth every penny, far superior to any stock scanner software. It makes old crappy scanners work 1000x better too.
http://www.hamrick.com/index.html
 

H8R

Cranky Pants
Nov 10, 2004
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Thanks, I'm watching that.
We have the Dual Scan III and I love it. The IV in that listing is an even better model.

Minolta is no more, but I believe you can download drivers, etc via the Sony site.

Vuescan will run that thing like a fvcking champ.



The Nikons are hella pricey, even used.
 

stinkyboy

Plastic Santa
Jan 6, 2005
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¡Phoenix!
Farm it out.

It broke my heart when I threw my $4K badass (at the time) (SCSI) Agfa slide scanner into a dumpster (only after giving it a little peck.)