[MacDV] Film Strip Scanners

[Scott Baldwin]

Steven,

a good compromise is the Epson 2450.  This is a flatbed scanner, but  
the only one that can actually scan slides and negatives with a good  
degree of quality.
This is because the 2450 puts a light source in the lid of the scanner,  
so light is passing through the transparent media.  All other flatbeds  
use a reflection technique which simply does not work.

This scanner has a firewire connection, and can do 4 slides or  
negatives at a time.  it creates a separate file for each slide.

The results are very good.  I have to tweak the scanned photos in  
photoshop, but over all I'm very pleased with the results.

At 600 dpi it takes about 13 minutes to scan 4 slides.

This scanner is going for about $350.00 at all the usual places.

Here is a description and reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005OCWM/qid=1041109978/sr=1- 
1/ref=sr_1_1_etk-electronics/102-6860644-3576120

Cheers,

Scott

On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 08:11 AM, Steven Romero wrote:

> I'm looking to include a film strip scanner into my stable of movie  
> making
> equipment. Granted this is all for family stuff but it could come in  
> useful
> for other stuff as well. Instead of going through all my old pics one  
> at a
> time and scanning them I would like to just scan the negatives and  
> break the
> individual pics from there. I've seen a lot of prices out there ranging
> between $200 and $2000 and more.
>
> Does anybody have any experience with these and can show me a little  
> light
> as to which way to go?
>
> Thanks,
> Steven
>
>
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