I started with a Nikon Coolscan III probably 5 years ago and ran out of time
with probably 10% of archive covered, the standard Software was good and a
3rd party product was staggering (Sorry cannot remember its name and I've
not run the ancient tower since I moved house), particularly in recovering
the bleaching of Kodachrome films from the late 50's/ early 60's the repair
of scratches and dirt on the fly was particularly impressive but I think a
rough estimate was each image took 5-10mins what with scanning, saving the
raw image output and then getting the best of the image from the tweaking
available and saving that too. Certainly I have to start again and will use
the later versions of Nikon but for next year or so we're a bit busy with
other things.
Alistair
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Johnson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 March 2009 10:17
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Slide scanner
Robert Treharne Jones wrote:
> I want to digitise my (vast) collection of slides. An recommendations
> for a 35mm scanner?
>
> Robert
>
>
I bought a Konica Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV Film Scanner 3-4 years
ago. Easy to set up and use Very pleased with the result. It scans 5
slides at a time. Still quite a time intensive operation though. The only
down side is that when I up graded to Vista it ceased to work
and I could not track down any Vista drivers. The company withdrew from
the Photo Imaging Industry in 2006 and so they are no longer produced.
Still works on XP.
Cheers
Rob
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