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Thanks Mongo!!! It is taking me forevvvvvvvver! and only doing 4 at a time is killing me. This looks similar to the one Benny posted about and I am really thinking it might be the go. 1 slide every 10 seconds (minus the pp afterwards) or 4 slides in 1/2 hour....hmmm, wonder which is better. Plus my LR would be able to do a better job of the PP than the scanner would, and lord knows I do NOT want to scan and then LR the slides. OMG no!
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Can negatives be done with this setup as well. I have read they can be more difficult and produce a colour tinge, but I have not seen these mounts mention negatives.
Mick
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never tried negatives.
Don't forget that all this set up does is photograph what the lens sees - it will simply see a negative.
However, when you put a negative in a scanner, it has a program to effectively "develop" the negative and produce it as if it had gone through a photo lab and printed. Mongo is not aware of any current digital SLR cameras that can do that.
Nikon and Pentax user
But I have done it with Photoshop. You get a cast - usually bluish - but that can be corrected.Originally Posted by mongo
Am.
CC, Image editing OK.
This explanation of Mongo's and also the one from arthurking here:
http://www.ausphotography.net.au/for...canning+slides
and other contributors in that thread and this one:
http://www.ausphotography.net.au/for...canning+slides
BUT I don't have an SLR so the bellows / slide copier thingy won't work for me.
Which leaves me with only the scanning option? I have heaps of slides and negatives (or prints) to do.
Much discussion mentions how people buy these things and rarely or never use them again.
Perhaps there is someone in the Brisbane region with an appropriate scanner that might wish to lend / rent a suitable one tome for a period of time ?
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If you don't have an SLR then, though it is quite possible, using other cameras and attachments can be problemnatic.
There are plenty of printers around still that do scanning of slides and negatives. Eg of an OLD one Epson RX650.
The process can take up LOTS of time and computer resources, so make sure you get something zippy.
Am.
My computer specs are pretty good, but its the hardware for the scanning that's the issue.
That's why a 'lend/rent' of a V700 or something would be IDEAL.
This may not help If finances are an issue, but I recently purchased an Epson V370 Scanner for around $190's from Officeworks as I have a few thousand slides & photos to scan and I didn't want an all in one. It is doing a great job. There is still a lot more this unit can do so need to play with it a bit more.
PS. will also do Negatives I think it does around 5 but numbers each Neg & slide separately.
Last edited by ROA44; 10-07-2015 at 7:29pm.
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Why is it an issue? I reckon a purchase would end up WAAAAYYY cheaper than a rent. You said you've got 1000s to do. That's NO
post-meridional peripatation. Think along the lines...
1000s x say 2000dpi x 16bit depth x slow USB2 links = a heckovalong time - heaps of PP...
1 way or an1ther, I read that you'll need to get a scanner of the order of a 2ple of 100 dollars. Don't get the useless jpeg-only cheapery for <=$100
Roa44: Thanks ! Officeworks $196, U-Mart $185. Cheers.
ameerat:
post-meridional peripatation ?
2ple ?
Was really hoping someone might have a scanner they've used, no longer need, and are prepared to sell on cheap !
By the way - is a meer rat something eaten by a meerkat?
Last edited by landyvlad; 14-07-2015 at 4:36pm.
My personal response to SMS-talk, I suppose
A meerkat? - There, but for a "k", go I! An adaptation of an adage.
Don't you do afternoon walks?
Now, that Epson V370 looks quite capable. The main difference from the V700 that I've got is that the V370 won't scan larger format transparencies.
The other (main) specs look fairly similar. - Oh, except for one: the price. Mine was $700
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Oh, and...
If you do get that scanner, learn what all the terms mean, like input, output, bit-depth, etc.
Scanners, AFAIK - at least not many I'd imagine, - scan straight to a bit-mapped file format, such as tiff, or jpeg, and NOT raw.
You can have a 48-bit (tiff) output file, which means you have recorded 16 bits per channel of R, G, and B, or you can scan straight
to an 8-bit jpeg/tiff.
Depending on what you want to use the images for, you have to consider bit-depth and resolution. You can end up with rather LARGE files,
typically of several hundred Mbytes in size. But if you want to use an image for a number of quite different things, like archiving pictures, or
just posting here, you might be better to do a pretty good initial scan and make some lower resolution versions of it later. And, again depending
on size, scanning just 6 slides at once can take up some time.
Well, you'll soon get used to it...
AM.
Cheers
The time for scanning 5 slides isn't that long actually and I haven't really checked the file sizes but I am saving as a TIFF File.
Not being able to scan larger format Neg's be a problem as I think my mother has a few. But not thinking about that yet as I have a few old photos that people want copies of that have been folded. Oh so much to learn.
...about.
- if I may add. You never stop
For those interested I managed to get a V370 at office works for $176 !
How?
I took a print out of the U-Mart price ($185) from their website - OW matched it and (apparently) an extra few % discount.
Just thought I'd put it out there for anyone on the look-out.
Good on yer, LV. Now..
1. Read the manual.
2. Read it again....
--Just joking.
...about.
- if I may add. You never stop
Looks like I'd better do a course on Learning how to learn.
Manual? What is this "manual" of which you speak? Never heard of one - other than a gearbox.....
What! Didn't it come with a user manual? (I'm sure) mine did, but so long ago.
Oh well, get it from here.
No it came with something by that name I've just never used one so not sure what it's for....
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