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scanning slides
Is there an attachment that will allow me to scan slides on a canon
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"fxxy" wrote: Is there an attachment that will allow me to scan slides on a canon scanner? Yah the idiot proof one. -- Would thou choose to meet a rat eating dragon, or a dragon, eating rat? The answer of: I am somewhere in the middle. "Me who is part taoist and part Christian". |
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"fxxy" wrote: Is there an attachment that will allow me to scan slides on a canon scanner? I guess you won't be doing any scans. -- Would thou choose to meet a rat eating dragon, or a dragon, eating rat? The answer of: I am somewhere in the middle. "Me who is part taoist and part Christian". |
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fxxy wrote: Is there an attachment that will allow me to scan slides on a canon scanner? Canon has a lot of scanners that will scan slides. So does Epson Visit Canon's website for info on specific models. Bob Williams |
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Is there an attachment that will allow me to scan slides on a canon scanner? If you have a digital camera that can accept close-up filters, you will spend much less time for better results than a flat-bed scanner. Dave S. |
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Dave S wrote:
fxxy wrote: Is there an attachment that will allow me to scan slides on a canon scanner? If you have a digital camera that can accept close-up filters, you will spend much less time for better results than a flat-bed scanner. Dave S. I would have thought a slide scanner was the answer. |
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"Dennis Pogson" wrote: Dave S wrote: fxxy wrote: Is there an attachment that will allow me to scan slides on a canon scanner? If you have a digital camera that can accept close-up filters, you will spend much less time for better results than a flat-bed scanner. Dave S. I would have thought a slide scanner was the answer. In some respects Dave is correct, for down and dirty fast digital files the copy method works rather nicely provided your camera images at full frame of the 35mm. -- Would thou choose to meet a rat eating dragon, or a dragon, eating rat? The answer of: I am somewhere in the middle. "Me who is part taoist and part Christian". |
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:43:11 -0500, Little Green Eyed Dragon
wrote: In article , "Dennis Pogson" wrote: Dave S wrote: fxxy wrote: Is there an attachment that will allow me to scan slides on a canon scanner? If you have a digital camera that can accept close-up filters, you will spend much less time for better results than a flat-bed scanner. Dave S. I would have thought a slide scanner was the answer. In some respects Dave is correct, for down and dirty fast digital files the copy method works rather nicely provided your camera images at full frame of the 35mm. I'll toss in my 2 cents worth, having just gone thru this operation, both methods for comparison. Several years ago when I got my first Nikon CoolPix 950 digital camera, I worked out a technique for copying color 35mm slides using it and my jury rigged "light box". The main value of that camera was - it had excellent Macro capability, so I could put the lens close enough to fill the image frame with the image of the slide. Later I found using a 7X good quality eye loupe between the lens and the slide gave even better results. As the years passed, I obtained more cameras, including 2 CoolPix 995, and they were slightly better than the 950. All this time, my flatbed scanner, a HP 4400C was useless for this purpose. And dedicated slide scanners were priced WAY too high for me, considering the cameras worked as well as they did. Just recently I found nearly 400 B&W negatives, some of 35 mm but most of 3 1/4" X 4 1/4" size that I'd taken during and after WW II, while in the Navy. Once again I tried my HP scanner on them, it was totally worthless for B&W negatives. So, back to the camera approach, and I digitized over 80 of my preferred ones this way. Then processed them in PhotoShop. Only a few days after finishing this, a local friend bought a recently released Canon 8600F flatbed scanner, and found it worked well for his slides. So, at his invitation, I took some of my 35mm plus some of the larger B&W negatives over and we scanned them on that new Canon scanner. I was quite pleased with what it could do, far more than my older scanner ever was able. When getting the files back home, I compared the images it made with those I made with the camera, and much to my great surprise - the scanner had greater resolution and detail. It's only flaw was it was limited to 3" width film, so I lost roughly 1/4" of those larger images. And what it could do with the 35mm negatives and color slides was far better than I'd been able to do with the camera. Bottom line, for most of my uses this unit at less than $180 price can do everything I need, thus eliminating forever my purchase of a $1000+ dedicated slide scanner. This technology seems to be improving rapidly, for which I'm very grateful. Olin McDaniel |
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