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I need a scanner which can do 35mm slides

Anybody out there happen to have a reasonable scanner for sale which can handle mounted 35mm slides? I've had a classified running for a while now in this forum, but not a nibble, and dedicated photographic sites generally require one to be a member with posting history to post a classified.

I've got several thousand travel slides to transfer to digital, wish me luck....
 
You can buy an HP for less than a grand. Generally you need to ask a PC store to order one.

I got mine from Incredible Connection 5 years ago.
 
Terencek said:
Anybody out there happen to have a reasonable scanner for sale which can handle mounted 35mm slides? I've had a classified running for a while now in this forum, but not a nibble, and dedicated photographic sites generally require one to be a member with posting history to post a classified.

I've got several thousand travel slides to transfer to digital, wish me luck....
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You waste your time - the quality is :sick:sh|t:sick:! (I've got a Canon 8800F:sick:)
You can get dedicated scanners for a lot of $, but you'll spend the rest of your life scanning.
Your only option is to have the shop do it. The quality of the minilab scans are great, and it's fast.
 
Not an option unfortunately. I have several thousand slides collected over a lifetime to transfer to jpg, and the best quote I got from a studio was R4 per slide! Nope!
 
The Epson V700 can take many slide at the same time. This scanner is as good as it get for flatbed scanners.

http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson V700/page_1.htm


The Nikon Coolscan is a dedicated 35mm scanner, with higher resolution and speed than the V700. The Nikon Coolscan V ED is not much more than the Epson V700, but you need the optional multiple slide feeder for doing a large number of slides.

The Coolscan is your best bet, as I don't see you doing so many slides on a flatbed scanner. :D

Make sure that the scanner you buy removes the effect of the dust with Infrared technology. The most popular one is "Digital ICE". Both the Coolscan and V700 have ICE.

I think the price of these scanners might be the same as having the shop do it. The Coolscan's quality is on par with the minilabs, but not the V700.

I have a Canon 8800F
http://www.quickshare.co.za/files/6o8alqln/Untitled-Scanned-0844232323.jpg.html
Here is a scan from a 35mm neg. The slides look the same, I've only tried a few slides.
 
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ldmelsa said:
Make sure that the scanner you buy removes the effect of the dust with Infrared technology. The most popular one is "Digital ICE". Both the Coolscan and V700 have ICE..
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Another option is to run them through a ultrasonic chemical bath. A lab can do this but I dunno what they charge. Alternatively build your own bath, instructions and diagrams are out there.
 
Slide duplication - the slow way ... :)

My preferred method of duplication is via a unit that couples to the front of a zoom lens with a macro function.
Illumination is done by 2 x 15W 6400K compact fluorescent lamps (although standard Cool White @ around 5000K works too).
The unit shown is an oldish one from Panagor, but does a great job, albeit ... slowly.
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I think I have found an even simpler, though crude, method than the one above. Buried among my slides was a little eyepiece viewer called an Agfa Gucki. Present it to the front of a digital camera set on macro, hold it up to the light on a reasonable day and click. One down, several thousand to go....
But the results are pretty damn good!
 
Take them to the minilab, or spend R10k on a dedicated 35mm scanner, and spend the rest of your life scanning.
 
For the best results, you need a high-end drum scanner. I have one, PM me.
 
I have an epson 1670 with slide adapter, its a very hit and miss thing with slides though, some stuff works, others just dont, its very dependent on the quality of the original. I too have heaps of slides and even some of the commercial shops do a lousy job if it. Shop around at professional labs, they will provide a better service than the small photolabs do.
 
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No one?
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Get a dedicated slide scanner --NIKON or one of the other Photographic manufacturers.

Google is not your friend but may help in educating you.

You may get more help in the photo section on this board

SomeOne :)
 
Having the same problem, I already tried the Photo section of this forum a few weeks back. Nada, niks nie. And as someone pointed out, the results can be patchy even from those R1K-plus 'slides too' scanners.

I did toy with the idea of adapting a normal scanner, which shouldn't be too difficult. What you would need is a fluorescent strip light set into a modified lid just above the normal glass bed, so that the whole lid is a couple of centimetres higher than normal and of course sealed around the edges to avoid light leakage. The principle appears to be to have the slides illuminated from both sides at once, that's really all there is to it, and that way you could fill your glass scanner bed with slides, which speeds up the sort of wholesale job you're talking about.

In the end I got the best results by simply presenting a little handheld 'Gucki' slide viewer to the front of my digital camera's lens, holding it up to good daylight and rephotographing the slide through it using a Macro setting. Works a treat with little quality loss -- but VEEEERRRRYYY slow!
 
I remember there being some scanners with slide/negative pieces but like said above its hit and miss with them, although we have a HP which tends to work quite well, what you could do is walk into incredible corruption and ask them about a slide scanner, and ask them to give you a demo.
 
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