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WHICH SCANNER (4 posts)

  • Profile picture of chuikudu chuikudu said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    I have hundred of slides which I want to digitalize but don’t yet have a film/slide scanner. I’ve seen two within my budget. These are the Canoscan 5600F and the Nikon Perfection V330. Can anyone out there recommend (or NOT) either of these and let me know pros and cons. Thanks

  • Profile picture of kenneth kenneth said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    Can I say that I am in a similar position to yourself in having a vast amount of Kodachromes that it would be nice to do something with. Due to the demise of Kodak Kodachrome my entire photography nowadays is based on B&W home processed and I have attempted to produce paper copy negs with my enlarger, a Durst M670, but with limited success as the transparencies tend to pop with the heat from my enlarger. I have tried to produce copy slides also with a newly acquired Nikon SLR fitted with a PB5 Bellows Unit and a PS5 slide holder. There again, with limited success. In fact I returned the bellows and slide holder as not been suitable. I can’t see me going down the scanner route, in fact a neighbour offered to give me a Nikon Coolscan, but the results I have seen seem so artificial, dare I say, digital and quite false looking so I guess the jury is out at present. I am sure the need will arise again and again I will look at the options but I cannot see me scanning slides. To me computers are for this sort of stuff, cameras are for producing art with soul. Something computers are incapable of

  • Profile picture of Sam Irvine Sam Irvine said 1 year, 8 months ago:

    I use a canonscan 9900f, picked up from ebay for £100, and apart from having to run a seperate pc with xp on it, drivers wouldn’t run on my windows 7 64 machine, it does a great job! Scans 35mm, medium format up to 6×12 and 5×4 LF. While it won’t match a drum scanner in terms of quality, it produces nice scans that have printed really well up to 12×16; I’ve not printed anything bigger but I’m sure the results would be just fine. :)

  • Profile picture of Fotohuis Fotohuis said 1 year, 8 months ago:

    https://reflecta.de/de/products/detail/~id.425/reflecta-MittelformatScanner-MF5000–ab-Juni-2011-erhaeltlich.html

    For 35mm and roll film.