I only have between 300 and 400 of the batch I'm interested in for now.
There is no way I will entrust my grandparents negatives to shippers and
a lab.
On 2018-06-27 17:44, Tomas Kuchta wrote:
I would encourage you to scan a few negatives/transparencies, measure
the
time it takes and extrapolate to cover all your negatives/positives.
When I did that years ago, I quickly realized that scanners are just
too
slow for what I wanted to do in a time given to me by mother nature -
by
couple of orders of magnitude, actually. Plus the scan quality was not
that
great either.
The solutions to speed things up are either:
a) adapter for your digital camera + automation. That way you can scan
and
postprocess hundreds of pictures a day instead of a few with slow
scanners.
With half decent DSLR, you will get high quality scans.
b) send the stash out for someone else to scan them. There are a few
big
and decent companies still doing it. That is what I have eventually
settled
on. The price is good and the quality is decisively better than from a
desktop scanner with transparency adapter.
Until I went through this scanning discovery, I naively believed in
great
quality of film photography compared to digital. I was so wrong -
today's
digital imaging is vastly superior, especially to old/aged films.
I hope that you find my comments useful,
Tomas
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 11:54 AM Russell Senior
<russ...@personaltelco.net>
wrote:
There is a guy in Seattle named Andrew Filer, who I met in a
then-hackerspace called Metrix:Create who modified a Kodak Carousel
projector in such a way as to backlight the slides (reduced wattage of
the
bulb, replaced the heat shield with frosted glass), basically used the
projector as a slide advancing robot, removed the lens, and aimed a
digital
SLR with a macro lens back at the slide and photographed the slide.
With
some simple transistor circuits, you could automate the camera's
shutter
release and the slide advance. You could do a whole tray of slides in
a
few minutes with very little supervision.
You need a digital SLR and a macro lens, preferably one with autofocus
(as
I discovered). But orders of magnitude less tedious than a flatbed
scanner
where you manually loaded slides into a holder, 12 at a time.
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Denis Heidtmann <
denis.heidtm...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> Russell,
>
> I would be interested in the method. Picture of a screen?
>
> -Denis
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Russell Senior <
> russ...@personaltelco.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Gotcha. I don't have any better solutions for that.
> >
> > If they were slides, I'd suggest the method I used in Seattle a few
years
> > ago, that went through about 3000+ slides in kodak projector carousels
is
> > an afternoon. Automation++.
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Michael Rasmussen <
mich...@jamhome.us>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Of primary interest are 2 1/4 x 2 3/4 (6x9cm) negatives from my
> > > grandparents. After that 35mm negatives.
> > >
> > > I was entrusted to my grandparents' negatives and am feeling a
> > > responsibility to scan them into digital files for my relatives.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2018-06-27 10:10, Russell Senior wrote:
> > >
> > >> What kind of transparencies? If they are 35mm slides, and lots of
> them,
> > >> there is a better way.
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Michael Rasmussen <
> mich...@jamhome.us>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> In another group, it was suggested I try Vuescan from
> > >>> https://www.hamrick.com/
> > >>> The free Linux download untars to three binaries.
> > >>>
> > >>> It just works.
> > >>>
> > >>> Now to, when I have time, figure out the issue with xsane.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On 2018-06-26 18:37, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> I've acquired an Epson V500 flatbed scanner. After immediate
install
> of
> > >>>> xsane and the Epson iscan drivers scanning does not work. I've
> added
> > >>>> myself to the scanner group and done a bit of unproductive
googling.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> The sympton can be summed up:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> michael@camper:~$ scanimage -L
> > >>>> device `epson:libusb:001:006' is a Epson flatbed scanner
> > >>>> michael@camper:~$ scanimage -T
> > >>>> scanimage: rounded value of br-x from -32768 to -32768
> > >>>> scanimage: rounded value of br-y from -32768 to -32768
> > >>>> scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
> > >>>> michael@camper:~$
> > >>>>
> > >>>> If you have a cluestick on what needs to be done, I'm ready for a
> > whack.
--
Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity
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