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[Evan Zimmerman <evan.zimmerman AT gmail.com>]

At least tangentially on topic -- does anyone know how to go backwards
to slides? As in, upload a digital pic and have a slide made and sent
back?


Evan

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:55:34 -0500, Roger Austin <raustin3 AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Evan Zimmerman wrote:
> > Sure -- we used a Nikon Coolscan V, which is a dedicated film/slide
> > scanner. I'm not so sure about the adapters for flatbeds, they don't
> > seem like they would work as well, but I can't say I have much
> > experience with them.
> 
>   I have scanned slides in a dedicated scanner with great results.
> A friend had a scanner that I used. You can do negatives the same
> way. At that time 3-4 years ago, the scanners were fairly expensive,
> but now they are fairly inexpensive to purchase (~$600-$1,000).
> The optical density should be what you look at and 2400 should be
> the lowest dpi to use. If the scanner allows a variety of levels,
> do a roll on various settings to see if the results are usable for
> your purposes before doing the remainder of your rolls. (If you are
> like me, you have hundreds or thousands of rolls.)
>   It may be possible to ask around if anyone would let you borrow
> one or rent one. The biggest issue is that you need to make sure
> your slides or negatives are clean and that you have feces-load of
> disk space. I had an assembly line of scanning and burning CDs so
> that I didn't run out of disk space. I still had times of sitting
> around waiting for the CDs to burn (remember that this was 3-4
> years ago when burning CDs took 30-40 minutes each.)
>   If you have a lifetime of negatives to scan, I advise you to do
> it yourself. It would be worth buying the scanner and then reselling
> it after you finish. Another word of advice: Don't start playing
> with the files until you finish all your scanning. You can spend
> the rest of your life playing with the files.
> 
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