Re: [OT} Scanning 35mm negatives?

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or....seeing as it's only 10 or 20 films see if one of the friendly
HA'ers on here with suitable scanners might consider doing it for beer
tokens or something equally valuable that you have that they might want?!

...N.B. Said with no knowledge of how long film scanning takes!!! :)


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ho Yin Ng" <architect.hoyin@...>
wrote:
>
> Why not just buy a second hand film scanner?
>=20
> If you still have SCSI you can get a real bargain. Now a days
everyone wants
> USB and most kids don't even know what SCSI is! I have a Canoscan=20
FS2710
> which I got years ago and cost me an arm and a leg. But it still
does good
> scans and definitely better than your flatbed scanner with attachment
> jobbie.
>=20
> Have a search on ebay and see if you can find something within your
budget.
>=20
> Ho Yin
>=20
> On 29/12/2007, Jim <jim@...> wrote:
> >
> >   I went through the process of investigating scanners about 12
months
> > ago,
> > looking at 200+ films I wanted to digitise.
> >
> > Bureau scanning was out the question on cost grounds so I ended
up
getting
> > a
> > Nikon 5000 dedicated scanner. Certainly not cheap (IIRC about
=A3600) but
> > the
> > results are stunning and well worth the money.
> >
> > If you only have 10-20 films, on a pound-for-quality basis, I'd
have them
> > done professionally. No scanner for =A3160 is going to give you
anywher=
e
> > near
> > the standard you will get from a scanning company. All companies
I
looked
> > at
> > had different prices for different scan resolutions, which
equates
to time
> > on their part as it takes longer at the higher quality. What you
need will
> > come down to your intended use.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
> > ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
> > Ian Lowe
> > Sent: 29 December 2007 17:25
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [ukha_d] [OT} Scanning 35mm negatives?
> >
> > Just before christmas we got lucky and found a set of the sample
shots of
> > our wedding photos - just the prints, no negatives... but still
good as we
> > had no photos of our wedding otherwise!
> >
> > The local "agfa photo centre" in Hamilton managed to
work bloody
wonders
> > with them - giving us a proper set of digital images from the
prints.
> >
> > Basically, our lives before the digital photography age might as
well have
> > never existed - whilst we have a wee sidebar gadget in vista
which
> > randomly
> > pops up photos from the Gallery, and a photo screensaver on the
kitchen PC
> > which does the same, the "pre-digital"
> > era photos live in the loft.
> >
> > soo...
> >
> > I'm in the market now for a scanner which can handle 35mm
negatives amd
> > let
> > me get these old shots into a more useful (copyable, backed up,
editable
> > and
> > so on) format.
> >
> > I'm not convinced about dedicated scanners, and my budget for
this
is not
> > huge - at the back of my head, I know that I can get this done
for
about
> > =A38
> > a spool, and I have maybe ten or twenty films to get done..
> >
> > advice? suggested models? bad idea?
> >
> >=20=20
> >
>=20
>=20
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