Slide scanner - recommendations?

[anonymous-user]

When my dad died I inherited thousands of 35mm slides - going back to the early 60s when I was a kid. They seem to be in good condition, I want to scan the best to send to family. A couple of hundred at least..
Can anyone recommend a pretty decent scanner at a reasonable price?. I have seen them in Jessops & Argos for around £100, are these any good or too slow etc?

[ian in lancs]

I've had a couple of goes at this for slides I've taken back to the early '80's. The hot scanner is the c£400 Nikon one that you can use and then sell on ebay. They seem to sell fast S/H. I bought a Minolta one at a camera sale for £50 and although the pics were OK it was oh, so slow! Maybe 20s a shot. Recently I found a 5M Pixel / £70 one on amazon IIRC. That's fine and effectively snaps a shot of the neg/slide onto an SD card. The side/neg carriers take about 5 shots so to do everything will take time... Especially as you only get one carrier for negs and one for slides. It is possible to get extra carriers and get a little production line going! As I'm away on business I can't tell you the name but its a vertical box maybe 8" high and 3" square with a little LCD display.

What I ended up doing was only scanning the slides of sentimental value - people and special places. Otherwise I'd be doing it for months.... Get or make a lightbox to make choosing easier!

[pilbeam_mp62]

I use this scanner http://www.microglobe.co.uk/catalog/product_info.p...

and this attachment http://www.microglobe.co.uk/catalog/product_info.p...

The scanner produces excellent results with the Nikon software that is included. If you think that you may like to print out some of the scans, then you need to be able to scan to a high quality.

The attachment allows you to load 40-50 slides and then set the scanner running and come back later and they are all done.

Regards

[ian in lancs]

And this is the one I referred to earlier

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Veho-Slide-Negative-Scanne...

Spare Trays

http://www.amazon.co.uk/USB-Negative-Scanner-Trays...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/VEHO-Slide-accessory-VFS-0...

[uncinqsix]

If on a budget, you could buy a decent older film scanner (Nikon etc) off ebay (or wherever) and sell it on again when you've finished for pretty much what you paid for it.

I bought an old Nikon LS2000 to scan in all my old negs and slides - 2700dpi, which gave me 9Mp images and very nice quality. Haven't got around to selling it yet though.

(Before you ask, I'm in NZ so can't sell it to you )

[anonymous-user]

Thanks for all of the advice. I opted to buy a used mid-range plustec, used once, for about half price (2 months old with receipt). I'll scan mine & sell it on as used twice!, shouldn't lose a lot..

[Glosphil]

I have an Epson Perfection 1650 flatbed scanner that came complete with a carrier for four slides or a strip of negatives. The supplied software automatically recognises slides or negatives and only records the actual images, putting each into a separate file. Works pretty well and I am using it to import slides, many of which are 50 years old. The main problem is the condition of some of the slides.

[uncinqsix]

Jimboka said:

Thanks for all of the advice. I opted to buy a used mid-range plustec, used once, for about half price (2 months old with receipt). I'll scan mine & sell it on as used twice!, shouldn't lose a lot..

That should work very nicely. And no, you won't lose a lot at all.