 Donna L. Jones |
Scanning Slides I have hundreds of slides and would like to have high res scans of some of them to print at home or have printed. They are $5.00 each at our lab. Can anyone suggest which would be the best scanner to buy to do slides?. I have the HP scanjet 4470 and it doesn't work well....Thanks for any advice..
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doug Nelson |
Two good deals for film scanners are the Nikon and Minolta in the $500 range. I am not convinced that any flatbed does a proper job with the tiny 35mm frame, although good folks here swear by some of them. Scanning slides has an inherent problem - dense shadow areas. Remember that the shadow areas of slides tend to be dense, where, with negatives, the highlight areas tend to be dense. I have yet to see scanning software provided with any scanner that will do a good job on slides with dense shadow areas (although most do an EXCELLENT job on some slides). I use Ed Hamrick's Vue Scan (do a google search) on all my film scanning. It is relatively cheap at about $100, but has quite a learning curve. Silverfast is another highly regarded scanning software. One strategy is to scan the easy slides yourself and farm out only the ones that give you trouble. Be sure, however, that the operator to whom you pay good money knows how to handle dense slides.
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