Converting hundreds of slides to digital, How???????????

Hi Group:
I have hundreds of slides, I would like to convert to digital. Any
suggestions for a reasonable scanner and adapter to do this?

I'm open to all suggestions.
Though I want to do the work myself, not send the slides out to a
commercial establishment.

Thanks for your ideas
JOe

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Nikon slide scanners and LOTS of free time

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 01:50:54 GMT, golf wrote:

Hi Group:
I have hundreds of slides, I would like to convert to digital. Any
suggestions for a reasonable scanner and adapter to do this?

I'm open to all suggestions.
Though I want to do the work myself, not send the slides out to a
commercial establishment.

Thanks for your ideas
JOe

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hire a school kid to do the work?


"GT40" wrote in message
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Nikon slide scanners and LOTS of free time

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 01:50:54 GMT, golf wrote:

Hi Group:
I have hundreds of slides, I would like to convert to digital. Any
suggestions for a reasonable scanner and adapter to do this?

I'm open to all suggestions.
Though I want to do the work myself, not send the slides out to a
commercial establishment.

Thanks for your ideas
JOe

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golf writes:

Though I want to do the work myself, not send the slides out to a
commercial establishment.

Send it out, JOe. Use a commercial establishment.
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What is the reason for the conversion? I have seen many people decide, I
have retired so I am going to scan my 40 years worth of Kodachrome. Then I
can throw out all the slides. Then 2 years later a better scanner shows up,
and all the old scanns look bad. Tell us what the end use is, because that
determines what scanner method works the best. For a database, you only need
a thumbnail, but if you want to print 11x14" or bigger, you'll need a better
scanner.


"golf" wrote in message
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Hi Group:
I have hundreds of slides, I would like to convert to digital. Any
suggestions for a reasonable scanner and adapter to do this?

I'm open to all suggestions.
Though I want to do the work myself, not send the slides out to a
commercial establishment.

Thanks for your ideas
JOe

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Hi,

I highly recommend the Minolta dual IV scanner. You can get it at buy.com for
$264 and sell it after you are finished.
Friend has it and is very happy with it.
Rosita

"golf" wrote in message
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Hi Group:
I have hundreds of slides, I would like to convert to digital. Any
suggestions for a reasonable scanner and adapter to do this?

Nikon's Super Coolscan 5000 ED with their stack adapter has a workflow that
comes out to about 1.2 minutes per 14mb scan (no matter what Nikon says).
It takes 28-30 slides per stack. There are some difficulties with certain
early plastic mounts and certainly with glass-mounted slides that will slow
down the process. You can work out the time math.

"golf" wrote in message
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Hi Group:
I have hundreds of slides, I would like to convert to digital. Any
suggestions for a reasonable scanner and adapter to do this?

Nikon's Super Coolscan 5000 ED with their stack adapter has a workflow that
comes out to about 1.2 minutes per 14mb scan (no matter what Nikon says).
It takes 28-30 slides per stack. There are some difficulties with certain
early plastic mounts and certainly with glass-mounted slides that will slow
down the process. You can work out the time math.

"JedMeister" wrote in message
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hire a school kid to do the work?

Get an attentive one! I created the config and setup for such college
student and due to the inevitable boredom, he did not notice when he touched
something, screwed up the framing and wasted eight hours (of over 100) of
scanning. It had to be done over. It's a job for a smarter robot.

See prior threads with long responses in comp.periphs.scanners (use
www.deja.com to search them).

1) negative scanner. anything from Minolta Dual IV and higher will do,
but to remove scratches and dust, you'll need a model with ICE. Minolta
5400 is basically the starting choice as the cheapest, highest
resolution, generally best performing neg. scanner for consumers. Can't
go wrong with this one. Higher end nikons with auto-loaders cost even
more, but can save time.

Expect about 5 - 15 minutes per slide just to focus, scan with ICE,
touch up, and save. Expect days to weeks for this. Highest quality
possible.

2) digital camera with slide holder option. came out years ago, eg.
with Nikon 950/990 line, and available for many digicams. Basically,
put in slide, point at light source, take picture.

Lower quality than above, but very fast - as fast as you can load
and press the shutter button and reload. You can go through thousands
easily with this method in one day.

3) Imacon Flextight. iF you've got $$$$. Higher quality than #1, pros
use it, quality up there with drum scans, but very expensive in
comparison to #1 (thousands vs. hundreds of dollars to buy)

4) flatbed scanners like Canon or Epson with multi-strip simultaneous
scanning. Models out that'll scan 5-20+ at a time, but again, slow and
quality is lower than #1.