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Want to scan/archive slides
Mark Perlstein, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Plano | TX | USA | Posted: 8:39 PM on 01.25.10 |
| ->> What are my best chioces for a used slide scanner? I have about 500 35mm slides to scan. What is the difference between the Nikon IV, 4000, V, 5000. Is ther a flatbed scanner that will give me a big enough file size from 35mm? |
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Tom Story, Photographer
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Tempe | AZ | USA | Posted: 8:53 PM on 01.25.10 |
->> If you're going scan slides, my recommendation was for a slide scanner made for 35mm, one of the Nikon Coolscans would be a good choice.
Or look at one of the offshore scanning services. In my experience Scancafe does a nice scan and at the pro res it opens up to 55megs. The turn is about 6 weeks and the price is less than a buck a scan.
Having spent way too much time scanning film, this is a good deal. |
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James Broome, Photographer
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Tampa | FL | US | Posted: 11:20 PM on 01.25.10 |
->> Lots of photographers recommend ScanCafe. AT 29 cents a scan, they're hard to beat.
http://www.scancafe.com/ |
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James Escher, Photographer
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Garden City | NY | USA | Posted: 12:50 AM on 01.26.10 |
| ->> I second Mr. Broome's recommendation of ScanCafe. I've had thousands of negatives and chromes scanned by them, and they do a great job at affordable prices. If a photographer has a large batch of images that require scanning ScanCafe is worth considering not only because they offer quality services at reasonable rates, but because they'll save him/her a lot of time that he/she would otherwise have to commit to scanning, toning, archiving, etc. |
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Mark Perlstein, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Plano | TX | USA | Posted: 7:55 AM on 01.26.10 |
| ->> I have a tough time sending my slides to another country. |
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Harrison Shull, Photographer
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Fayetteville, WV | Asheville, NC | | Posted: 9:03 AM on 01.26.10 |
->> Scancafe and its brethren are all good options.
The time, effort, and money it takes to get your scanning system setup, operating smoothly, and color calibrated is not insignificant. Then the time it takes to go thru each slide to pre-clean, flatten, straighten, scan, color correct, dust spot, and archive is not insignificant.
For a more pro option... there is Jaincotech which is a scanning service used by many of the large stock houses. They not only scan but they also fix dust spots and scratches and offer keywording services. They have two tiers of cost. The lower cost version has everything done in India. The slightly more expensive version is doen in Ohio. Both versions offer excellent quality.
It all depends on what you want/need and what your budget is. If you have hundreds of slides or more, then one of these services is BY FAR the best option when you look at the per-scan cost in time and cash.
As for your question on a flatbed scanner... I would urge you to stay away as their scan quality is rarely as good as a dedicated film scanner. If you are going to get a film scanner, buy the most recent Nikon scanner you can find used. I have had many iterations of this line and all have been excellent. I use my CoolscanV all the time and have had thousands of scans produced by this machine that have made it into print and/or into my stock agencies.
Good luck. |
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Scott Morgan, Photographer
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Rockford | IL | United States | Posted: 10:08 AM on 01.26.10 |
->> I used an old Nikon slide copier bellows with a 55 macro attached to a 5d mk2 with an adaptor. I shot a flash with a diffuser onto the ground glass of the copier. Worked really well. I could crank through slides as fast as I could pull them from the tray and put them in the holder.
I just googled and found a picture of the setup. http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockypix/3473076155/ |
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Dino De Pillo, Photographer
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Huntington Beach | Ca | U.S.A. | Posted: 7:52 PM on 01.26.10 |
| ->> Mark, Costco also offers this service,the cost is .29 cents per slide. I am not sure how their quality compares to some of the suggestions previously mentioned on this post, but the ones I had done looked pretty good. Also they process them in 24 hours. Currently, I have some on my member site. |
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Mark Perlstein, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Plano | TX | USA | Posted: 8:44 PM on 01.26.10 |
| ->> Dino, what is the size of the file? |
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Mark Perlstein, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Plano | TX | USA | Posted: 8:45 PM on 01.26.10 |
| ->> I am leaning towards slidescanningpro.com |
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Dino De Pillo, Photographer
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Huntington Beach | Ca | U.S.A. | Posted: 11:43 PM on 01.26.10 |
| ->> Mark: 3139 X 2048 (4mb) |
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Zack Podell, Photographer, Assistant
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Marina Del Rey | CA | USA | Posted: 3:03 PM on 02.25.10 |
->> Here's a bizarre one.
I have found that I need to remove mounts on slides in order to scan them, b/c the mounts cut off some of my really tight images. any suggestions on what to do? I have a couple thousand slides I want to scan. should I change the mounts out? or is there a company that will scan them without the mounts? |
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