35mm Film Scanners
09 May 2002, 07:05 PM
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Quick reply before I go out.
Don't ignore Jessops (http://www.jessops.com) - they will price match a lot of stuff and you can have a look before buying.
What budget? There's a Canon in the £700 range that's meant to be very very good.
Don't ignore Jessops (http://www.jessops.com) - they will price match a lot of stuff and you can have a look before buying.
What budget? There's a Canon in the £700 range that's meant to be very very good.
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Jessops seem to have a good range of 35mm scanners ranging from £120 to £2500. I'll ask my man what he wants to spend.
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I bought the Canoscan FS2710 through Jessops, very happy with the scanner.
Be careful with them if you want to use hardware with a Mac, as I bought one 35mm scanner that was advertised as Mac compatible, and assured by them it was at purchase, only to find it wasn't. No probs doing an exchange, and they knocked a bit off for my trouble
Be careful with them if you want to use hardware with a Mac, as I bought one 35mm scanner that was advertised as Mac compatible, and assured by them it was at purchase, only to find it wasn't. No probs doing an exchange, and they knocked a bit off for my trouble
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We have a Minolta Dimage Scan 2 which is lying around after we went digital, it cost £400 2 years ago from Jessops, it gives top quality scans as my dad has used it profesionally for the past 2 years.
It's for sale if you want it complete with scsi card, drop me a mail if you are interested.
Mcbrun555
It's for sale if you want it complete with scsi card, drop me a mail if you are interested.
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13 May 2002, 08:29 AM
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I have a Nikon Coolscan IV. It's pretty good (500 quid or so from Jessops, who will price-match anywhere including the web if it's a UK site).
If you want more info on scanners, check out www.halftone.co.uk which has loads of good info about scanners, and is also where the filmscanners email list is hosted. Another good site to check out is www.imaging-resource.com which has good reviews of all of the scanners on the market.
Lastly, you may also want to consider using VuScan (www.hamrick.com) instead of the scanning software that comes with your hardware. It's got a bit of a funny interface (it's cross-platform for Mac/PC/Unix) but it worth perservering with as the images obtained are far better than with the software that comes with most scanners, meaning less tweaking in Photoshop afterwards to get a decent image.
If you want any more info (particularly about the Nikon) drop me a line (I rarely read the BBS).
Mark
If you want more info on scanners, check out www.halftone.co.uk which has loads of good info about scanners, and is also where the filmscanners email list is hosted. Another good site to check out is www.imaging-resource.com which has good reviews of all of the scanners on the market.
Lastly, you may also want to consider using VuScan (www.hamrick.com) instead of the scanning software that comes with your hardware. It's got a bit of a funny interface (it's cross-platform for Mac/PC/Unix) but it worth perservering with as the images obtained are far better than with the software that comes with most scanners, meaning less tweaking in Photoshop afterwards to get a decent image.
If you want any more info (particularly about the Nikon) drop me a line (I rarely read the BBS).
Mark
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