- Film scanners
- Posted by Polar Light on July 2nd, 2005
I am looking for a film scanner to scan mostly 35mm slides & the odd 35mm
neg, I have 1000s of them & want to manipulate them in Photoshop so I'm not
after a commercial service.
Years ago I had a Nikon LSIII, which had a very low dynamic range & required
a SCSI card. I then purchased a Plustek OpticPro but had to send it back due
to a purple colour cast & consistently crap quality of the images scanned.
Is there a website where I can find a good, up-to-date review on different
brands & models? A Google search unveiled 'Tony Sleep's filmscanner
reviews', which used to be very good, unfortunatly Tony seems to have gone
to sleep, since the site was last updated in 2000!
Any ideas?
- Posted by CSM1 on July 2nd, 2005
"Polar Light" <tpt12345@somewhere.net> wrote in message
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http://www.imaging-resource.com/SCAN1.HTM
http://www.steves-digicams.com/scanners.html
For the best value in a film scanner, check out Minolta Scan Dual IV.
It does not have Digital ICE, but does have software dust and scratch
removal.
It is USB 2.0 as most of today's scanners are.
The Konica Minolta site.
http://kmpi.konicaminolta.us/eprise/...tent/index.htm
For a list of film scanners:
http://www.scantips.com/basic13f.html
After you get a scanner and you want information on how to get the most from
it. (Learn how to use it)
http://www.scantips.com
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- Posted by bmoag on July 4th, 2005
If you can afford them look only at the Minolta 5400 and the Nikon scanners.
You will not be sorry with any of this group if they are within your price
range.
The Canonscan4000 is no longer being manufactured but is still available new
from many vendors at a very good price. This is a slow but very capable
machine.
The low end Minolta scanner is very good for what it does but you really
want a scanner with scratch/dust removal if you have alot of images to scan.
- Posted by keyes04@netscape.net on July 15th, 2005
On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 23:16:07 GMT, "bmoag" <aetoo@hotmail.com> wrote:
I agree fully. I "stretched" considerably about a year ago and got
the Nikon Coolscan V, and am very glad I spent the extra. Digital ICE
adds to the time, but it sure is worth it. And without it, the scan
time is great - not even too bad with it, either.
C.R.
- Posted by Polar Light on July 15th, 2005
<keyes04@netscape.net> wrote in message
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scanner reviews. In the end I also 'stretched' but went the opposite way, I
got a Minolta 5400 II. I've only used it a few times (had it only a few
days) but so far I'm pleased with the results. I used to have a Nikon
Coolscan years ago which cost me more than the Minolta but had a rather low
dynamic range (I think it was 3.0) & wasn't very good with shadow detail,
giving a lot of noise. It had Digital ICE but no multipass option, for that
you had to shell out for the SuperCool Scan & you could only scan mounted
slides one at a time. All this was back in the 90s though (pre-USB, SCSI
card essential), they're probably a lot better these days.
