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Flat bed scanner and old archive negatives
Robert Dall, Photographer, Assistant
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Portage la Prairie | MB | Canada | Posted: 7:49 PM on 12.18.03 |
->> Guys, Gals, I have a question, nothing even remotely close to sports photography but here goes.
One of our high schools in Portage la Prairie has it's own museam and archive. The school is well over 100 years old, the school also runs a archiving course as one of it's electives and teaches the students how to archive memorabilia and other pieces of the schools history.
The school just recieved well over 500 4x5 negatives from the local museam. These photographer were once part of the Daily Graphic files taken by a former staff photographer. The negatives were damaged in the last couple years and the students have been fundraising to proserve part the school vivid past.
They want to digitize all the negatives and need a high quality scanner to do it. The only problem is they don't even know where to start. They are not looking for a $100 type. They need something that will be both quick and produce great quality. I also suggested photo mechanic as a catalog software. They will be running off a PC and some version of Photoshop of which I am not sure yet.
At some point they would like it to be searchable on the net also but that can wait.
These students are quick to learn and easy to work with so getting techincal with them will not be a problem their teacher is also amazing knowledgable about photography.
I will be posting this on rb.com but does anyone have good suggestion for a flatbed scanners etc. . . |
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Michael J. Treola, Photographer
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Neptune | NJ | USA | Posted: 8:24 PM on 12.18.03 |
->> Robert,
We use AGFA DUO flatbed scanners at my paper. We have a few that have been in service for 18 hours a day for easily over 6 years with not as much as a hiccup. I just looked on the AGFA website http://www.agfa.com but couldn't seem to find any info there
Just recently I did some research and found that the Epson http://www.epson.com pro photo scanners to highly rated and producing quaility that of several thousand dollar units. Since I own and love my Epson 2200 printer I will eventually but the Epson flatbed because of the reviews and the fact that Epson products have never let me down in the past.
I do remember my office had a couple of bad experiences with Microtek scanners both in build quality and driver issues so do your research. |
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Shaun Sartin, Photo Editor
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Aurora | IL | 60506 | Posted: 9:23 PM on 12.18.03 |
->> Robert,
We use a Epson 836XL (flatbed)at work, and have the transparency top adapter that allows us to scan negs. I think the best use of this unit (and it's 4 years old) is for doing sheets of negatives to come up with contact sheets.
Michael, I think Agfa, like Kodak is out of the desktop scanner business. I just called Kodak last week about our RFS 2035 and 3750 and neither are supported by service anylonger.
Getting back to Robert, I'd definitely want to see some sample scans on any flatbed in the $2K range that scans medium or large format negs. I'm hoping the 4 years that has passed has improved quality.
Shaun |
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Neate Sager, Photographer
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Portage la Prairie | MB | CANADA | Posted: 8:48 PM on 12.20.03 |
| ->> It's a cool project and I can't wait to see what the PCI kids finish up with. |
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Walter Calahan, Photographer
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Silver Spring | MD | USA | Posted: 9:37 PM on 12.20.03 |
->> The Epson Expression 1680 can scan four (4) 4x5 negatives or transparencies at once at 3200dpi. The 4x5 negative holder works great.
I prefer scanning one 4x5 at a time at a lower dpi setting (400dpi will give you around a 65meg 16-bit RGB file).
With transparency adaptor, SilverFast software, Monaco EZColor, and a firewire connnection, around $1350 from B&H in New York.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&... |
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