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Re: [LUG] Transfering slides to digital

 

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Simon Robert wrote:

> Hi
>
> for a very long time I've been wanting to transfer 100's of slides my
> father took in the 60's onto a PC. I looked at an HP scanner which
> claimed to do this, but turned out to be a cruddy slide holder which one
> scanned on a flatbed scanner.

Many years ago I bought a Canon CanoScan FS2700 which could take slides 
and negatives (I have a large collection of both) with the intention of 
scanning in all my old material..

Well - apart from a bit of enthusiasm when I first got it, it's mostly 
gathered dust. (Although I did have ause for it a few months ago - glad to 
find it still worked!)

The problem is that it's just too labour intensive. Scanning, touching up, 
filing, etc.

So basically I gave up and made the switch to a digital cameras there and 
then.

If you're going to get a scanner, get one that you can load up a whole 
tray of slides at once, and get one with an IR scanner for automatic dust 
removal, otherwise you'll spend the rest of your life scanning and 
touching them up..

And although it's not free, have a look at VueScan - I have a copy (it 
cost me $40 at the time), but was infinitely better than anything else I 
found (eg. SANE) - especially in a "workflow" situation where you're 
trying to scan slide after slide, etc... http://www.hamrick.com/

Good luck with whatever you choose...

Gordon

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