Film & trannie scanners
Posted 21/12/2008 - 00:09
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You Brits are using weird expressions. What do you mean by a "Trannie" scanner?
Yves (another one of those crazy Canucks)
Posted 21/12/2008 - 00:27
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Yes it had me going for while, but I think what they are talking about is a scanner to get from transparencies to digital images
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Posted 21/12/2008 - 10:11
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bforbes wrote:
Yes it had me going for while, but I think what they are talking about is a scanner to get from transparencies to digital images
Oh I was just putting me wifes dress on too
Yes it had me going for while, but I think what they are talking about is a scanner to get from transparencies to digital images
Posted 21/12/2008 - 10:21
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I use a Minolta Dimage IV which is very good, you might pick one up on ebay. It comes with carriers for strips of six 35mm frames and four mounted 35mm 'trannies'. There was also an APS carrier available.
Ken
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“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
Posted 21/12/2008 - 10:37
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Thanks for your comments .. yes I should have been more careful with my terminoligy for international usage I guess. Good job I didnt pop outside for a fag !!!
Anyway it should have read scanning both mounted and film strip transparency film. Hope this clarifies the situation.
Off now to rip off my wifes underwear .. Its cutting in terribly
Anyway it should have read scanning both mounted and film strip transparency film. Hope this clarifies the situation.
Off now to rip off my wifes underwear .. Its cutting in terribly
Posted 21/12/2008 - 10:57
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Thanks for the link to previous thread Hardgravity. I just read through that and it looks like a mamoth task lies ahead if I choose to scan my entire archive of film material. Let me know what you choose by way of a new scanner. I will probably just do selected parts of my archive to digital.
Thanks again Richard S
Thanks again Richard S
Posted 21/12/2008 - 12:22
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I use a HP scanner model G4050. It does a very good job, but it is not too fast. The good point is that you can put up to 12 mounted transparency or 5 strips of 6 pictures and set it up to go during the night. Just take note that if you are using a graphic tablet with the HP scanners, the drivers will interfere with each other. You will have to download a driver patch from HP for their scanner driver, so it won' mess up your graphic tablet.
Yves (another one of those crazy Canucks)
Posted 21/12/2008 - 12:26
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As I've said before, the idea of digitising a whole collection of slides or negatives is a dreadful prospect.
I'd do the task if someone paid me a large sum of money every day to do so. Otherwise no.
I'd do the task if someone paid me a large sum of money every day to do so. Otherwise no.
Best regards, John
Posted 21/12/2008 - 14:26
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Whilst I wouldn't want to do a whole archive of slides / negatives I can see the appeal of scanning, say, a hundred or so of my best from days of yore.
For those sorts of numbers though it'd probably be cheaper to pay someone else to do them (compared to the price of buying a scanner outright).
I've shot 8 rolls of film this year and had them all scanned and put onto CD at the time of processing - quite a nice compromise.
For those sorts of numbers though it'd probably be cheaper to pay someone else to do them (compared to the price of buying a scanner outright).
I've shot 8 rolls of film this year and had them all scanned and put onto CD at the time of processing - quite a nice compromise.
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Posted 21/12/2008 - 14:59
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I've never tried it but for speed what about a slide copier lens on a DSLR wouldn't that work?. The light would have to be right to avoid colour shift but I'm sure that could be overcome with a little experimentation. Once done then in Photoshop colours can be reversed.
Cheers Vic.
Cheers Vic.
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Posted 21/12/2008 - 15:20
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Unfortunately with a DSLR you get a cropped image - it's the smaller sensor that causes this. A full frame DSLR would work.
For larger formats taping the original to a lighbox is another method, but you have to be very careful and precise to get a good result.
For larger formats taping the original to a lighbox is another method, but you have to be very careful and precise to get a good result.
Best regards, John
Posted 21/12/2008 - 16:54
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Thanks very much for your comments everyone greatly appreciated. I have to say I had not considered what a large chunk of time this was likely to take. Interesting thought about the slide coppier Vic, I had not even given that a thought. I will have to take stock of the situation and decide whether it is a viable proposition to undertake. I have been offered a sum of money to buy my archive as it is, so I may well decide on that option and save myself a lot of work. Thanks again everyone.
Richard S
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