Lonewolf
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Post by Lonewolf on Apr 25, 2007 16:19:48 GMT
Anyone know anything about these critters??
Wolfie.
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Post by rd49 on Apr 25, 2007 17:25:14 GMT
Sevearl years ago I nearly bought one, its best to go for the more well known makes, canon, nikon ect. best if you can afford to is to find one that has a batch feed facilty, loading and scanning one strip at a time is a real pain. when I was looking they were on the expensiv e side-£400 600 mark but this might have dropped a bit by now. as someone who had upto 30,000 negs it was something i should have purchased. can,t tell you a lot about the technical side i,m afraid
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Post by Ted Taylor on May 20, 2007 19:19:30 GMT
Anyone know anything about these critters?? Wolfie. I have an Epson perfection 3200 PHOTO and this is fine for negs and trannies does an excellent job Ted
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Lonewolf
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Post by Lonewolf on May 20, 2007 20:35:15 GMT
Yeah I've been to a couple of shops and enquired since I posted that and it would appear that you need to buy a completely new scanner/printer to have the neg adaption. I already have a good one that scans, prints and photocopies so I don't want to lay out on a new one. I was kinda hoping for some device that did just negs/trans but it appears they don't exist Wolfie.
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Post by rd49 on May 20, 2007 21:07:48 GMT
hmmm, thats intersting, when I was looking there were two that would have been ideal , both just self contained units- not scanners, just out of interest what shops did you enquire in?have you tried looking in the normal photomags, and jessops? thats where I remember seeing these before
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Post by rd49 on May 20, 2007 21:08:37 GMT
hmmm, thats intersting, when I was looking there were two that would have been ideal , both just self contained units- not scanners, just out of interest what shops did you enquire in?have you tried looking in the normal photomags, and jessops? thats where I remember seeing these before
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Post by Ted Taylor on Jun 16, 2007 17:59:04 GMT
Yeah I've been to a couple of shops and enquired since I posted that and it would appear that you need to buy a completely new scanner/printer to have the neg adaption. I already have a good one that scans, prints and photocopies so I don't want to lay out on a new one. I was kinda hoping for some device that did just negs/trans but it appears they don't exist Wolfie. Wolfie, There are neg and trani scanners just for that job but you are looking at £400.00 a pop and they only do 35mm film. you can buy a good scanner that will also take 10X8 trannies for £342.00 at Amazon at this moment Epson V700 photo, but if you only have 5X4s then my 3200 epson photo will do anything up to that size, you do not need another printer if you have one already. the reason you need a new scanner is that you need the light in the lid so you can scan through the neg or trannies not from underneath them. if you want to do a lot of work then it is a good buy and you will have all the latest tech in your machine Ted
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Post by GR1 on Jun 17, 2007 11:46:09 GMT
Yeah I've been to a couple of shops and enquired since I posted that and it would appear that you need to buy a completely new scanner/printer to have the neg adaption. I already have a good one that scans, prints and photocopies so I don't want to lay out on a new one. I was kinda hoping for some device that did just negs/trans but it appears they don't exist Wolfie. There are quite a few dedicated film scanners available. There are less coming onto the market with the advent of digital photography, of course. Do a search on Amazon, Ebay or Pricerunner... As mentioned above, they aren't that cheap but you can pick up older models that will suffice - a decent one should be less than £100. Watch for the interface... the Canon FS2710 that I still use is SCSI only. We're talking 35mm here. If you have larger format negs/transparencies to scan it's unlikely to be worthwhile investing in a dedicated film scanner unless you have lots and lots of material and lots and lots of money to spare! The best option here is a flatbed with film scanner attachment/option - and there are many of these around. The scan quality is adequate for most purposes and the more you spend the better it gets (usually). If you need to scan for very high quality reproduction, there is the option of finding an agency who will do that for you using a drum scanner - but I don't think we need go that far!
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