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ups.com... I want to scan a bunch of family slides. The Nikon 5000ED scanner with the SF-210 auto slide feeder retails for about $1500. Are there no other brands? How does one find used ones that are reliable? Respond to Now that Minolta has gone out of the camera and scanner business, Nikon is about the only game in town for new film scanners. You may search Ebay for some used film scanners, but I would stay far, far away from the Minolta Scan Dual IV scanners. I have one dead in my closet. There are some pretty good flatbed scanners with film scanning built in. The Epson Perfection V700 and the V750 are often said to be as good as film scanners. I own a Canon Canoscan 8400F that does up to 120 Film, at a maximum resolution of 3200 DPI. 8400F has be replaced by the Canoscan 8600F. -- CSM1 http://www.carlmcmillan.com -- |
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"john" wrote in message ups.com... I want to scan a bunch of family slides. The Nikon 5000ED scanner with the SF-210 auto slide feeder retails for about $1500. Are there no other brands? How does one find used ones that are reliable? Respond to Well the Reflecta looks and works kind of like a slide projector. More info he http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Re...-DigitDia-3600 I found a few for sale att www.ebay.de Richard |
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:21:58 -0700, john wrote:
I want to scan a bunch of family slides. The Nikon 5000ED scanner with the SF-210 auto slide feeder retails for about $1500. Are there no other brands? How does one find used ones that are reliable? Respond to The LS5000ED is a very good scanner. I've scanned well over 30,000 slides and negatives in the past couple of years and it's still going strong. I'm not sure how many were slides and how many were negatives, and film strips, but I'd guess a good 2/3rds were slides. If you have a bunch of family slides and photos there are a number of questions to ask before even starting. I'll ask a few and also point you to http://www.rogerhalstead.com/scanning.htm . There's a lot of information there and a lot of questions but it should help in making some decisions. The things to ask as what do you want to do with these images once the slides are scanned? How do you plan on viewing them and how do you plan on storing them? If you want to save the images in the highest possible resolution so they can be manipulated later on it's different than just saving them to disk so they can be viewed on a computer screen. It also makes a big difference in how much memory/ storage is going to be needed. Here we are getting lucky as 500 gig (Half a terabyte) drives are now just over a $100 USD. Full Terabyte drives are running about $350 to $400 and they just came out. That of course is the reason the smaller drives are getting so much cheaper. OTOH I still have a difficult time thinking of a 500 gig drive a being small. Images from slides scanned at 4000 dpi take up a lot of space. They are roughly 60 megabytes at 8 bit color depth and twice that at about 128 megs at 16 bit color depth. that means it takes a DVD just to store the equivalent of one roll of film. That can add up to a lot of DVDs, a lot of time, and a relatively good method of cataloging them. Of course you still need to sort and store the old slides. Another couple of thoughts: we really don't know how long the DVDs will remain viable storage. That is not only how long will they last but how long will they remain a technology that is readily readable. *PROBABLY* the technology will be around for another decade at least but I emphasized the probably for a reason. Due to the sheer numbers both CDs and DVDs will probably be around for a very long time, but I make no guarantees. Then you have both backing up and archiving the images. I back up my data across a network so the images are on at least two computers. I then burn them to *two* DVDs which gives me two complete sets of archived data. External HDs make good temporary storage and a good backup. they are not reliable for long term storage but as has been said a good short term back up is better than none. We are dealing with drives, tapes, and DVDs (optical media) that are readily available and affordable to the general public. Good Luck, Roger www.rogerhalstead.com |
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