Actually, for $700 you can get a scanner that is likely what most people
you'd pay to do it for you are using.
Something like a Nikon Coolscan V. They are 4,000 DPI and have ICE (Image
Correction & Enhancement) to remove scratches, dust et cetera.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Nikon-Coolscan-V-ED-35mm-Film-Slide-Scanner-LS-50-NEW_W0QQitemZ130250541063QQihZ003QQcategoryZ15223QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em122
Alistair
2008/9/1 Chris Ross <>
> Graham,
>
> I do a lot of slide scanning, can be time consuming. If you want it done
> by someone, I'd suggest:
>
> http://www.imagescience.com.au/Scanning/flextightScanning.html
>
> Very good quality, done on Flextite scanner, worth >$10,000. the $7.50
> scan should be sufficient for most needs.
>
> Otherwise you can do it yourself, but once again time is the issue, you'd
> be looking at $700 for a good flatbed scanner, where you can load multiple
> slides at once, but they are slow. A dedicated slide scanner does the best
> job, Nikon are the only ones selling them these days, apart from a couple of
> no name type brands I've seen on offer. What to do will depend on what
> purpose you have in mind. If you just want to use the scans for a website,
> the quality requirements are relatively low, Printing a poster size image
> is another issue. Shooting them with a DSLR on light box with a macro lens
> is another option which could be quite fast once you sort out the right
> white balance.
>
> If you're doing it for archiving you probably want high quality and you
> need to think about how you're going to store the files. Hard discs do
> fail, you probably want as a minimum a copy on your hard rive, and a back up
> on an external drive. If you want to ask anything more specific drop me an
> email.
>
> Chris Ross
>
> ===============================
> www.birding-aus.org
> birding-aus.blogspot.com
>
> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message:
> unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
> to:
> ===============================
>
===============================
www.birding-aus.org
birding-aus.blogspot.com
To unsubscribe from this mailing list,
send the message:
unsubscribe
(in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to:
===============================
|
