2009/5/8 wayne <[email protected]>: >> 1. Cheap film scanners at this time? (David Gerard) >>Time to ask this again! (i.e. I'm thinking of spending money on one.) >>What's the state of affordable negative scanners at this time? I'm >>seeing little things that require Windows for ?70 or so. Anyone bought >>any such device recently?
> Yes I purchased one but have only attempted the transparency scanning > and the light is too bright, so the slides are not true color. I have > not attempted a negative scanner. I used to pay a fellow in Newmarket > about 50 cents or more for slides and negatives and they turned out > terrific. Check out a few of those on wayneray.ca/archives and link > on the Commons links there. > It is called *ION slides 2 PC using arcsoft photoimpression 6.1, I > paid about 79$ Canadian Yeah, the Ion is the cheap one I was looking at :-) How correctable is the colour? Is the light so bright it blows out highlights on the sensor? (These things basically use the same sensors as compact digital cameras.) Correctable I can deal with (I could even script it), blown highlights are another matter. Does it only save as JPEG or also as PNG/TIFF? My main application is the two boxes of photos upstairs going back twenty years: lots and lots and lots of negatives. I think with the film scanner I'll need to be getting a 2TB disk drive. (Also looking at the somewhat pricier ones, about double the price. Basically you can pay as much as you want to for a film scanner.) - d. _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
