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BrentB

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I use a SCSI ACER film (35mm slides and film scanner) scanner and have a lot of film and slides left to scan and my scanner does not have Digital Ice. This unit uses a slide holder holding 4 slides and I have only 2 holders. I am looking at used Nikon CoolScan models on Ebay with usb so I can use it on other computers and like how easy it is to feed it. I dont need a top of line model. One or two older generation model is fine.

Any recommendations or comments?
 
Brent -
Been using a VuPoint FS-C1-VP scanner to digitize slides. Takes four slides, one at a time. Sounds similar to yours. Works fine. A little slow, but functions. I'm about half completed with my slide copying and would be glad to send it on to you when I (finally) finish my project (probably a few months off, since we're off to Greece for most of February). Let us know if you want it.
 
I have a Minolta 2840 Dimage which is 4 slide scanner, USB and 2800 DPI--but does not have Digital Ice. I think that with older slides it is worth having the dital ice--takes much less time to touch up dust and scratches. The newer units are 4000 DPI, up to 6800 DPI (but there has to be a limit)
 
El and Bill":23q9lywt said:
Brent -
Been using a VuPoint FS-C1-VP scanner to digitize slides. Takes four slides, one at a time. Sounds similar to yours. Works fine. A little slow, but functions. I'm about half completed with my slide copying and would be glad to send it on to you when I (finally) finish my project (probably a few months off, since we're off to Greece for most of February). Let us know if you want it.
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HI El and Bill

Yes I will try it and in no hurry and will return it.. I have 2,000 slides left to scan and have not started on the film strips.
 
thataway":2r8s1d0k said:
I have a Minolta 2840 Dimage which is 4 slide scanner, USB and 2800 DPI--but does not have Digital Ice. I think that with older slides it is worth having the dital ice--takes much less time to touch up dust and scratches. The newer units are 4000 DPI, up to 6800 DPI (but there has to be a limit)
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I think the Digital Ice performs miracles.
Thanks for your comments.
 
Has anyone had any experience with the "Pacific Image PowerSlide",
#3650 , 35mm slide film scanner? I've seen it for abt $730.

I have abt 3000 slides I would like to convert in an easier way than
with my 'Microtek 4900, flatbed scanner. It does only one at a time
and the physical mounting in/on the 'lightlid' adaptor is very time
consuming. Its resolution is abt 600dpi, at best. Sooooo....... the search
begins.

I have looked at the NIKON CoolScan series, but they are abt 3x times
more than the Pacific Image. I have not found any used units, yet.
 
Sea Angel":hb7mt5hj said:
Has anyone had any experience with the "Pacific Image PowerSlide",
#3650 , 35mm slide film scanner? I've seen it for abt $730.

I have abt 3000 slides I would like to convert in an easier way than
with my 'Microtek 4900, flatbed scanner. It does only one at a time
and the physical mounting in/on the 'lightlid' adaptor is very time
consuming. Its resolution is abt 600dpi, at best. Sooooo....... the search
begins.

I have looked at the NIKON CoolScan series, but they are abt 3x times
more than the Pacific Image. I have not found any used units, yet.
Click to expand...

I see used Nikon coolscan III LS-30 on ebay go at low prices. I think these USB powered. Mine is SCSI and does not support HD, RAID,etc. USB units are easily shared . My Acer unit uses separate and slide holders and it takes a little time and effort to add and remove slides. I have not started scanning film strips.
Nikon units are drop and scan and faster
I use one at my second job

Good luck and post a review if you buy one
 
Brent,
I retired my 35mm Minolta SRT-202 a couple of years ago and got
hooked on the NIKON D60. I got it on sale with the 18-200MM stabilized
lense. I have since added the 70-300mm lense, the '800 flash head and
a 16GB flash memory card, filters, etc.. It has been a lot of fun. I don't
think I will go to the next level on NIKONs anytime soon.

Tom,
Thanks for giving the worker a history lesson. I have abt 3000+
slides and many boxes of my parents. I hope to put together a family
album to go with our family trees.

This new digital world is a great way to document inventories and
projects, as has been seen in the C-Brats Albums. If you don't like
the pix, you discard it without all the film expenses of the past. :shock:

Art
 
Just a thought - for about the same cost as a fancy new scanner, it looks like you can get someone else to do all the work and digitize your slides for you. There's a number of services out there that do that. Slides are pretty easy for someone that has a scanner with an auto-loader. Once you're done with your 3000 slides, the scanner is pretty much worthless to you.
 
Roger,
You are right abt other services. The cheapest I have found is abt $0.29
each. Discussing my search with others I found several others with like,
or more, quantities to be converted. I hope to be able to help some of my
friends and church members with this.

I have not found any to rent, either.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Art
 
I've got a VuPoint scanner and it works okay but like someone said after you've scanned all your slides it's useless. I came across a shoe box full of what I guess are 8MM home movies made in the 40's by my Grandparents in Brazil. I expect many are of ships as thats what they were there for, building them. I wonder if there is and affordable service to digitize these to DVD's?
 
Having been a camera nut since age 10 I have boxes and barrels full of slides and prints and negatives... Many of the slides go back into the 50s... The Kodachromes are vibrant and gorgeous and still viewable a half century later - as well as the BW prints, etc... Will, the digital pictures we (I'm doing it too) are now filling hard drives with be viewable 50 years from now? The answer is "very unlikely"... Not all progress is progress..
 
I do it the cheap way. Having about 650 slides from the fiftys, I set up my screen and projector with my digital camera on a tri-pod and start taking pictures. I then transfer them to the computer.

Good way for old guy to spend a winter day or two or three.
 
Talk about being stuck inside a box... I do have a projector, digital
camera, tripod and easel. I'll get some white foam board to use as a
screen. My portable screen is too worn for this approach.

Thanks for the brain kick. :oops:

I don't know how much difference there will be in time, but the scan time
factor will surely be a lot less per slide. If this works well enough, I can
still help some of my friends.

Art
 
Danny, why do you think that you will not be able to view your hard drives 50 years from now?? I just want to know if There is something I dont know about or thought of? other then the fact that I won't be here in 50 years, well 94 by then maybe i will, I dont see why the files or their replacement would not be around. very interested to hear.
 
I set up my projector and foam board as a screen. I did not get as good
a pix as I hoped for. I practiced with several boxes with a mix of
KODACOLOR and ETACHROMA slides. To get the true color balance
is a challenge, I have yet to master with this setup. The detail is not as
sharp as the image on the screen after I transfer it to the CPU
when taken with the D60 (10 MB).

I guess I need to practice and try some different settings in the D60;
else, the scanner with the ICE system properties added. My NIKON
Capture NX2 software does a great job, but each slide can be labor intensive.

Maybe there is a Coolpix Scanner out there with the USB I/F for a
reasonable price. I think someone suggested EBay... got to check that out.

OK, that is where we are on this plate.

Art
 
Brent,
Thanks for pointing to the extensive education and information sites.

I tagged several of the links and read some of the reviews. The info
I gathered enlightened my impressions. I tend to translate the digital
photography info and apply it from my broadcast camera repair/aignment
days.

I formally started working on the ENG SONY BETACAM systems when
they came out in 1981, though I have been shooting EKTACHROMA slides
since 1950+. The transition from TV broacast component analog video to
digital BETACAM was fairly easy after you got past certain 'threshhold'
limits on cable runs.

The optical limits I encountered along with the color shifts has convinced
me so far to look for the COOLSCAN 5000 series.

Again, thanks Brent.

Art
 
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