[X4U] 35mm Slide Scanner for OS X iMac

[Ed Gould]

On Jan 24, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Paul Biddlecomb wrote:

>
> Finally, someone has an actual scanner recommendation.  Up until  
> now, all I've gotten is useless thoughts on how it would be faster  
> to have a company do it, which would end up costing many hundreds,  
> if not thousands, of dollars.  I'm looking for a solution in the  
> sub-$200 range.
>
> Does anyone know of an adapter that would work with an HP All-in- 
> one Printer/Scanner/Copier, which is about 4 years old?  I'm not  
> sure of the model number.
>
> Or a low-end scanner that will easily scan slides?  I'm not talking  
> about high-end scans, but something to archive these slides for  
> future reference.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
> -------------SNIP-------------

I have a friend who went through this exercise about 6 months ago and  
I am sorry I don't remember the scanner he picked up. I was with him  
when he went to the computer store but have forgotten the name. What  
does stick in my vague memory is that the software is really a key  
issue. IIRC he went with SILVER????? and then paid for the upgrade to  
the pro version. I talked with him the other night and he is in  
progress of scanning 2000+ slides.
He is a perfectionist and the scanning (and doing work with Photoshop  
after the scan is extremely man power intensive). He is giving a  
presentation Friday to CERA ((its a electric railroad group) here in  
Chicago. I am supposed to attend to critique it. I was hoping he  
would have had it done for last weekend so he could have previewed it  
on my Plasma TV, but  it didn't happen and he is in desperation mode  
and not answering phones etc.

Ed