Anyone know of a fairly good quality scanner for reproducing transparencies?

Need to show some of my work off to galleries and I'm fed up with them losing or not returning work

Budget of up to £500

Cheers

Amanda

 

Hi Amanda,

Most flat bed scanners have a transparency adapter for scanning 35mm negatives and that sort of thing. Loads of different people make flat beds - Epson, Canon, HP etc. PC Pro rate the Epson Perfection 1200 Photo - http://www.pcpro.co.uk/chris/printre....php3?id=35331

Alternatively, you can get a dedicated film scanner.

Nikon do the CoolScan IV for around £450 + VAT.

Canon also do a couple of film scanners - http://www.canon.co.uk/canoscan/index.htm

Have you got a Jessops or something near you? They might well have something in store you could take a look at.

HTH,

Chris.

 

Hi

I have been using a Canon CanoScan FS2710 for nearly 2 years.
It is easy to use. The software - Photoshop LE with a plug-in -
is also ok to use. It will accept slides, negatives and B & W all 35mm. There is an adaptor for APS.

The results have been consistently good. I am mostly using it to archive the drawers full of slides and negatives I have accumulated over a lifetime. That is the only drawback to it. If you have lots work to scan, it is a bit time consuming.

If you have good printer and use the right paper, the printed results are indistinguishable from photographic prints.

I paid less than £500 for it. Canon have recently introduced the CanoScan FS4000US - a 4000 dpi scanner for less than £700. That would obviously deliver more detailed scans for a bit more money.
Though with the 2700 dpi scanner I have found that you see film grain before pixelation when enlarging the images.

I hope that this helps

Charles

 

cheers for your advice

 

Borrowed one of these from a friend to scan in about 1000 slides. Takes about 20 seconds a slide and is very easy to use.

 

Me Nikon man.

Nikon Good

Canon anti-Christ

Seriously though, I've always used Nikon scanners, pro stuff adittedly, and they've always been brill.

Josh

 

You Nikon Man

Me Leica Girl

 

Hi
I have purchased a HP Scanjet 5370C it comes complete with the adapters for scanning negs and slides. I bought this from MAKRO's cost a meager £110. Brilliant Results

Have a look hear for spec http://www.hp-expo.com/uk/eng/produc...6.html?id=1916

All the best Pete

 

If you Leica girl, me leica you

Great stuff, just a tad expensive and impractical for my work.

Josh

 

Way to a photographer's heart Josh

I'm the same, nice to have one as a toy tho!

Used to have a couple of Nikons and a Rollei, now just got a digi-snapper and take my work to a professional

Cheers for the advice

 

Ditto comments above re: Canon FS2710, I've had mine for about 2 years, it is excellent.

However, I would probably go for a Nikon if I could get one with their software that automatically cleans up images (sorry, can't remember what it's called) if it was a similar price.

Cheers
Tim

 

Depending on how much you want o enlarge the images go for the Coolscan IV if you want to blow them up big , a dedicated slide scanner will normally have better resolution over the scanning area where a flatbed with a tranny unit will not give you the same resolution so if you're enlarging the images the quality will suffer. Flatbed solutions will be your for around £200 where as the Coolscan is far more .


AllanB

 

I'd agree with Allan.

I use my old LS1000 for scanning 35mm, but use an Epson GT9600 with a tranny adaptor for my 120 stuff. The quality is pretty good, but not as good as a dedicated scanner. 35mm on a tranny adaptor can be a bit hit 'n miss. I use mine to scan my stock travel shots so I can put them onto CD's to send out to brochure pulishers.

I know a couple of people with newer coolscans, with the ICE software, and they get pretty much the same results that I do.

Josh

 

No scanning any **** though Amanda

 

Is that what you do with yours then 'Chelle

 

Girls,

Whatever you do, don't scan any prawns, it will void your warranty.

Tim

 

Damn that's where I went wrong

 

Tim

You've had a prawn experience with your scanner?!!

Uh oh.....stay there......<backs outof door>

 

To think this was once a serious thread.

Prawns on your scanner invalidates your warranty, just like curry in the keyboard I'm afraid.

 

You're right this was once a serious thread...

 

So what else invalidates your warranty?


corner

 

Trust 'chelle to muppet a 'serious' thread!

I have been looking at getting a second hand film/slide scanner and Jessops seem to have some good ones in for about £350 second hand.

 

Who me?

I was being serious