Need a printer/scanner with slide scan: recommendation?
Jimbo156
which aalso has a scanner functin. I have tons of 35 mm slides to
scan, so the scanner needs to have a slide scan function as well. I
am finding plenty of combo printer/scanners, but no luck yet finding
one that also does slide scanning.
Stacey
Try the rec.photo groups but I'd be shocked if any combo printer/scanner
would scan slide good enough to print from the files made from a 35mm
slide. Unless of course someone makes a film/slidescanner built into a
printer?
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Stacey
Bob Retelle
NO flatbed scanner will scan slides very well.
A few have "attachments" to let you do it, but they do a fairly poor
job.
Think about it- how large is the area of a color slide compared to
the overall scan area of a full page..? You won't get very good
resolution with a flatbed on an area that small.
The BEST solution is to go for a "film scanner" like the Olympus
ES-10.
The basic scanner comes with a holder for color slides and will scan
at a native resolution of over 1000 pixels/inch (I don't have my other
system booted right now with the ES-10 attached to check the actual
resolution, but no flatbed is going to scan an area that small at over
1000 pixels/inch), and an interpolated maximum of 2400x1600 (over the
area of a color slide, remember).
If you check on eBay, you'll find people selling the ES-10 fairly
often, usually around $100 or less (which almost makes me want to cry,
remembering how much I paid for mine not all that long ago).
If you have SCSI available in your system, look for a SCSI unit
because they scan a lot faster than the more common parallel port
models.
I believe Olympus has stopped production on their film scanners, but
some photo shops might have them still available, at retail cost of
course, if you're leery of using eBay.
(I just took a quick look, and oddly enough there are 2 of them on
eBay right now, but from the UK. There aren't any US sellers offering
one at the moment- but of course that could change in the next 10
minutes...)
The scanner also comes with a 35mm film holder for scanning negatives,
and I just bought an automatic APS film holder that will scan a whole
roll of APS film automatically and make thumbnails of the entire roll.
And of course, there are other manufacturers besides Olympus who make
film scanners.
BobR