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Re: Archive Your Old Photos with a Scanner

jicirilla — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:44:05 -0000

I have had a 4000 dpi polaroid film scanner (53 MB Tiff files) and a Minolta 5000 dpi (5 MB jpg files). The polaroid croaked and they wanted more to look at it than a new Minolta cost so... All in all I must admit I got better scans from the Polaroid than the Minolta. I also got/get better files from the film scanner than the digital cameras I have. Unfortunately, film processors that don't leave enough crap on the film to grow vegetables in have gotten really scarce. I am patiently waiting for the 30+ MP Leica to come out in RF format so I can use my lenses. Get one of the HP flatbed photo scanners. The film/neg scanners are too tedious and they don't do paper photo's.

Re: Archive Your Old Photos with a Scanner

atane — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:57:21 -0000

John, it should work fine with Vista.

Re: Archive Your Old Photos with a Scanner

John Howard — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:08:47 -0000

Does anyone know if the all HP Software that comes with this scanner work with Windows Vista? The HP website mentions Vista compatibility, but I wonder if it would be like my HP PSC2210v all in one scanner. It works with Vista, but to a very limited degree. One of my favorite features, scanning an article to a PDF file does not work. In fact the entire HP Director software will not run in Vista.
Thanks,
Jon

Re: Archive Your Old Photos with a Scanner

Vitit Kantabutra — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:31:38 -0000

To my surprise, today's (or even last year's) $150 flatbed scanners work much better than dedicated, $550 film scanners from the turn of the millennium, in terms of scan quality (color and sharpness). However, the scans are still slow.

In my estimation, the quality bottleneck now is in the slides themselves.

Also, J&R advertised that you just need "a couple of afternoon" to scan all your old photos. Not true at all! It takes half an hour easily to just work with each photo.

Re: Archive Your Old Photos with a Scanner

RNYK — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:22:24 -0000

Ted: You can scan up to sixteen 35 mm slides or 30 negative frames. There is no feeder, although you can place multiple photos on the bed at once. The maximum scan size is 8.5" x 12.3". The adapter is built in.

Hope this helps!

Re: Archive Your Old Photos with a Scanner

Ted — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:09:23 -0000

I need information on how one can scan 35 mm slides. Is there a way to scan several at one time ? If so, how many. Is there an adapter included with light source ? Is there a feeder, and how does that work ? Please give us some information. I am interested.

Re: Archive Your Old Photos with a Scanner

Mark — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:02:51 -0000

This is a pretty good scanner. Has a nice negative attachment too
http://www.jr.com/epson/pe/EPS_4490PHOTO/

Re: Archive Your Old Photos with a Scanner

LBP — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:37:03 -0000

There is no feeder on this, unfortunately. But it is definitely a nice unit for scanning negatives. Scans come out clear and bright.

Re: Archive Your Old Photos with a Scanner

Richard Tedrow — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:40:36 -0000

Excellent question, Kelly, I'd love to have the answer, too. Esp. if the feeder takes different sized pics in the same feed group.

Re: Archive Your Old Photos with a Scanner

Kelly — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:28:17 -0000

Do any of these have a feeder, so you can put a stack of photos on it and let it run vs. the dreary task of scanning one photo at a time?

Re: Archive Your Old Photos with a Scanner

rick — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:21:47 -0000

What do you recommend for scanning negs and slides? The flatbed scanners I've seen with neg/slide attachments don't seem to do a good job. Is the Nikon Coolscan V the only option?