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Gordon Henderson wrote: > > I have a slide and negative scanner. It's old though - SCSI! It produces > the equivalent of about a 12MP image. Single slide at a time. > > The big down-side is that it's slow. Not so much the scanning part which > takes about 45 seconds, but the post-processing to correct colours, take > out scratches, etc. > > I also bought some commercial software to handle it too (shock horror!) > I still don't think there's anything to match it, and at the time it was > $40 well spent - VueScan. (Which "knows" about the scanner and 100's of > types and makes of film so can do 95% of all the corrections in > software) Maybe SANE has improved since I first got it (8 years ago), > but it was sh*t back then. > > I have visions of digitally capturing 1000's of negatives and slides I'd > taken over the years - I did a few then got bored and bought a digital > camera. It's last big outing was a wedding I did for a friend about 6 > years or so ago - I had the digital camera (Nikon CP5000, 5MP), but felt > that film was still better at the time and I had more experience with my > old SLR. I think that was the last time I used the SLR... > > You may be better off & quicker with a slide adapter for a digital > camera... > > Gordon > > (Who, like your slides is also more than forty years old and doesn't > think that's that old!!!) > Well, forty is not old for you but I think it is old for slides. Luckily my slides are still in very good condition having been carefully stored. I didn't know about slide adapters for digital cameras. I have a Canon camera so will look into that. Thanks Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html