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well if it is 36 inches wide and lots of feet long I know just the guy to scan it for you
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Originally posted by MikeIf your looking to Scan Slides, Photos or Negatives, Try Treasured Memories Slide Show Services
They will scan your slides at 4000dpi, using NIKON Coolscan 5000 ED, onto a CD/DVD or even produce a complete Slide Show with Music, that will play on your TV through your DVD Player.
Excellent quality and Service, and loads of Freebies, including:
Free Return Postage, Free Additional DVD, Free Colour Corrections.
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Originally posted by MikeIf your looking to Scan Slides, Photos or Negatives, Try Treasured Memories Slide Show Services
They will scan your slides at 4000dpi, using NIKON Coolscan 5000 ED, onto a CD/DVD or even produce a complete Slide Show with Music, that will play on your TV through your DVD Player.
Excellent quality and Service, and loads of Freebies, including:
Free Return Postage, Free Additional DVD, Free Colour Corrections.
perhaps I should mention my dads A0 scanning bureau?
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Slide, Slide Scanning, Photo Scanning, UK
If your looking to Scan Slides, Photos or Negatives, Try Treasured Memories Slide Show Services
They will scan your slides at 4000dpi, using NIKON Coolscan 5000 ED, onto a CD/DVD or even produce a complete Slide Show with Music, that will play on your TV through your DVD Player.
Excellent quality and Service, and loads of Freebies, including:
Free Return Postage, Free Additional DVD, Free Colour Corrections.
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Originally posted by FungusThere's an even bigger difference between a dedicated 35mm slide scanner and a futon. Trust me.
The figure of 4800 DPI suggests a flatbed, in which case it woud be equivalent to more like ~2400 DPI from a dedicated slide scanner. And the dynamic range might not be so good. Oh and I presume the files are 8 bit per channel JPG's?
To be honest I think you are better off buying a dedicated slide scanner. The Minolta Dualscan 3 can be found in as new condition for about £50. It's a nice scanner, ~2800 DPI, and a decent dynamic range (DMAX).
Fungus
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Originally posted by expaton a dedicated 35mm scanner, or just on a flatbed? There is quite a difference.
dedicated, slide scanner. None of that flat bed rubbish.
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I have a HP Scanjet 5590 and it came with a 35 mm film scanning attachement.
It works quite well.
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Originally posted by Joe Black"Quite right, but the Creo is $12k."
Don't remind me (think the one shown costs even more)...
Perhaps some day that sort of kit will come down to the consumer price level.
Have loads of slide/negs that I'd loved to get scanned so the idea of such a flatbed appeals to me. Slap 36 of them on at a time and scan the lot, all sorted/rotated and saved as individual files.
Have tried the Coolscan/Minolta route, but still wasn't happy with the noise at times, especially with negs when some of the anti-noise/multi-scan stuff just plain doesn't work.
At the moment like you I get occasional 6x4's still done by a bureau and certainly notice the difference in quality, though at 300MB per pic I think I need to upgrade my PC to cope...
The Epson 4990 will take 24 slides slapped on the glass (don't forget to use the "film guide" frame, it sets exposure from that) and copy them in one shot, into 24 separate files, but it's some way short of the dedicated scanner in real resolution. I think that's because of the focusing: it doesn't do it.
300MB? You were lucky, lad. When I scan a 6x6 at 4800 in 48-bit into Photoshop, it's 650MB. Then I duplicate layers to work in.....When I go over 1GB per pic I think about collapsing it a bit.
I hate throwing data away!
PS Ken Rockwell argues persuasively against bothering to scan all your old slides, which I did once consider.Last edited by expat; 15 February 2006, 08:53.
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"Quite right, but the Creo is $12k."
Don't remind me (think the one shown costs even more)...
Perhaps some day that sort of kit will come down to the consumer price level.
Have loads of slide/negs that I'd loved to get scanned so the idea of such a flatbed appeals to me. Slap 36 of them on at a time and scan the lot, all sorted/rotated and saved as individual files.
Have tried the Coolscan/Minolta route, but still wasn't happy with the noise at times, especially with negs when some of the anti-noise/multi-scan stuff just plain doesn't work.
At the moment like you I get occasional 6x4's still done by a bureau and certainly notice the difference in quality, though at 300MB per pic I think I need to upgrade my PC to cope...
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Originally posted by Joe Black
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Canon Pixma MP800 Premium All in One Photo Lab with 3.5" LCD Viewer
This all-in-one printer has an adapter for scanning in 35mm negatives:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...364118-0222838
Does anyone know what sort of results it would give? Is it any good? Thanks
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The email address on the site doesn't work
Originally posted by n5goonerHi guys,
just want to tell people about a slide scanning service....
25p per slide, scanned at 4800dpi
www.slidescan4u.co.uk
I think it is the cheapest slide scanning service available.
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Originally posted by Joe BlackHad/used a few dedicated 'pro-sumer' type film scanners (Nikon 4000 and such like) but still the best quality scans I've ever had (for level of detail, dmax, and noise etc) have all been made with a flatbed from a 10x8 print believe it not...still the sort of equipment it was done on, and the cost, probably make an Imacon look quite reasonable...
I use a Nikon Coolscan IV for 35mm and an Epson 4990 for MF. The Epson is great value for money, and quite useable for MF (apparently great for LF), but it does not compare to the Nikon for 35mm.
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Interesting idea Fungus.
Jessops used to do an inexpensive slide copying attachment for SLR's as well, intended for film of course, but if you could get the correct mount/attachment then it would provide a free scanner in a sense for anyone with a digital SLR...
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