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Scanner advice
21-12-2010 8:37 AM
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On QVC this morning there was a Kodak all-in-one but a quick squint of the reviews suggests that it is not all that good which is a pity because the price was reasonable and it was nice and compact.
With all the photography fans on here does anyone have a suggestion for a decent scanner that will do negatives? I don't have slides BTW.
Re: Scanner advice
21-12-2010 9:48 AM
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I don't know about negatives but I suspect I would need to use Photoshop to convert them back to a positive
Looking on Amazon there are a lot of items which will do what you want - prices £40 upwards
Re: Scanner advice
21-12-2010 9:57 AM
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21-12-2010 10:10 AM
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21-12-2010 10:22 AM
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21-12-2010 10:29 AM
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But AFAIK it won't natively scan negatives unlike these http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_16?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=negative...
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21-12-2010 11:01 AM
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Anyway, will need to do a bit more checking reviews before making a decision.
Re: Scanner advice
21-12-2010 11:10 AM
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I also have loads of negs and slides going back 40+ years and was looking to scan to disc. I like the looks of the Veho VFS-008 linked to by Jim.
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Re: Scanner advice
21-12-2010 11:28 AM
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I think I have found something to use my Amazon vouchers on
Re: Scanner advice
21-12-2010 11:58 AM
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* Just had a look again and wondered which one would be best? A number of my negatives are Instamatic ones and this is mentioned by name on the cheaper (£41) one. However, I fancy the higher price one (£62.99) because it is 5 megapixel. Advice please!
Re: Scanner advice
21-12-2010 12:27 PM
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I can't comment on the scanners - I have an old Minolta Diamage 4000dpi SCSI scanner - last drivers were Win2K. But 5m pixels is equivalent to only 1800dpi on a 35mm frame. The 4800 and 9600dpi ones will probably give better results (and much bigger files).
I would however caution you that its a VERY SLOW process if you care about the quality of the results.
You need to get the negatives/slides scrupulously clean and free from any dust, load them into the scanner ( one or six at a time), scan them, post-process them in photoshop, catalogue and store them. Doing several thousand slides is a full time job for quite a long period. I seem to remember it taking me 3-4 minutes per slide as long as the shots were perfectly exposed and all taken on the same film stock (15-20/hour). I could do about 100 if I settled down on a very good day before my eyes gave out and boredom set in.
Re: Scanner advice
21-12-2010 12:39 PM
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Also, if I manage to get one before the holiday (doubtful now) it will pass time on when fed up with the Christmas television repeats.
Can you tell me what is needed to clean the negatives please? They should not be in too bad a condition because they are stored in their wrappers in the top of a wardrobe and have not been handled too much.
I think that I am going to go for the Veho VFS-002 Slide & Negative Scanner for 35mm & 110 Instamatic Negatives because of the latter element but am a bit concerned about the megapixels that you referred to. Having said that, I am not looking for fantastic quality, just acceptable pictures.
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21-12-2010 12:53 PM
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21-12-2010 1:05 PM
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21-12-2010 1:09 PM
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The reason I ask is that I have an Epson Perfection 3170 Photo Scanner (flatbed) which will scan negatives up to 4800dpi and produce positive images (using W7), but have found it much, much quicker to scan the prints on the flatbed and the results seem better.
Also my only experience of Veho products (a USB record deck) was that it was no better than a toy and it went straight back to Amazon with that comment.
Sorry to be so negative
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