Sandy:

Oh, I forgot to mention on thing. If you want to cut down on the quality of the didital picture, you can speed up the time of scanning somewhat, but most people want all the quality they can get.

Neal

On Nov 428, 1120092007, at 9:44 AM, Sandra Schreiber wrote:

thanks for your help....I am going to wait, I think, until after Christmas. I have zillions of slides, and don't want to start on such a mammoth job until I have time to at least get into it. I read all the Amazon comments on the Canon 8800F, and it sounds pretty good, except for the fact that it only holds 4 slides at a time. I need to find someone to talk to about this...I am afraid I will need some hands on instructions! Maybe my brother be able to help me. Sandy
On Nov 28, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Neal Hammon wrote:

Sandy:

I purchased a Cannon scanner 8800F about a year ago, and like Dan, have been converting all sorts of slides and old photo negatives to digital. What you need to do is decide what size negatives and photos you would like to scan, and make certain that the scanner you buy can handle that size. Most include plates for 35mm slides and negatives, some include 2 x 2 plates for negatives for old Rolliflex film and other odd sizes.

Incidentally, as a bonus, my Cannon package included a basic OCR program that works well enough for causal usage.

Neal


On Nov 427, 1120092007, at 10:08 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:

The only way I know to "digitally convert" slides or photos is to scan them. Assuming that's what you mean, the answer is certainly no. Many (most?) scanners work fine with both Mac OS and Windows and provide software for both. At my place of work, for example, we use an Epson Perfection 4990 scanner connected to a Macintosh G5. It scans (converts to digital images) photos, slides, negatives, text ... just about anything you can throw at it. The scanning software that we use imports the image into Photoshop, from which it can be altered to one's liking, saved, etc.

Dan

The only digital converters for slides or photos that I can find are for Windows. Is this true?
Sandy

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