RE: [OT] Slide scanner

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been through a few negative/slide scanners.  Never had what I would
term a good result out of them.  Certainly nothing that comes remotely
close to the kind of quality I get from my EOS digital.  I'd go with a pro
outfit for scanning films myself.  It's pricy per negative/slide, but at
least you'll be guaranteed decent quality.  If anyone does know of a decent
scanner that costs less than what it would to pay someone else, let me
know!

Cheers,
Andy
--
http://www.andylaurence.co.uk

-----Original Message-----
From: Bricknell, Tony [mailto:tony.bricknell@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thu 16/12/2004 16:33
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Slide scanner




I've been looking at these recently.  The best I could find (unless you
were
throwing silly money at) it was the Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400,
presently on www.dabs.com for 524 inc.  Spending anything less than this
seems to give you nothing more than "adequate" scans - and
"adequate" wasn't
good enough for archiving my slide collection...

See the likes of
http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Scanners/Minolta/page_1.htm
for a typical review

HTH,
Tony


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Lamb [mailto:rjl@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 December 2004 16:15
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Slide scanner




Been clearing my sadly departed Mother's house and have come across
hundreds of 35mm slides I forgot were there. I've had a go using my
flatbed scanner with disappointing results so was looking to get a
dedicated slide scanner.

Does anyone have any recommendations or pointers?

Regards,

Rob