Re: Scanning negatives and slides

2015-11-09 Thread Marlene Oostryck
Hi Chris, I have been using the Kaiser Baas Photo Maker Touch for years and have scanned thousands of negatives and slides. It has a small touch screen and saves scans to an SD memory card for easy transfer to Mac or PC. The Touch model has a 9 megapixel camera to capture the scan and you can ma

Re: Scanning negatives and slides

2015-11-09 Thread Bill Parker
I seem recall JB HiFi. It has two racks that hold five slides/negs. You push the rack through the machine and click. (A bit like an old fashioned slide projector) It works across Windows and Mac - the plug in is USB B > On 10 Nov 2015, at 14:44, Chris Burton wrote: > > Hi Bill > > Thanks

Re: Scanning negatives and slides

2015-11-09 Thread Chris Burton
Hi Bill Thanks very much for your suggestion. I had no idea such a unit existed!!! I will do some online searching on it to see what it is and where I might be able to get one? Have you used this before? Does it do batch scanning and work with a mac? Best regards Chris On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at

Re: Scanning negatives and slides

2015-11-09 Thread Bill Parker
Chris, I would recommend using something like Kaiser Baas Photomaker. Its a standalone neg and slide scanner that is very easy to to use and not expensive. Bill > On 10 Nov 2015, at 10:13, Chris Burton wrote: > > Hi all > > In relation to Bill's recent post, on scanning photos with a multi p

Scanning negatives and slides

2015-11-09 Thread Chris Burton
Hi all In relation to Bill's recent post, on scanning photos with a multi printer, I am interested to know if it is possible to scan negatives and slides on a multi function printer? I have an old Epson multi printer (with a flat bed top with a lid) that cannot, but understand some multi printers

Scanning negatives

2010-05-24 Thread Lloyd White
I have been scanning old photos with Vuescan and this has been fine. When I scan negatives using the special negative strip holder on my Epson 650 it takes forever with a single strip. I followed the Vuescan settings but it takes several minutes each strip. Even then the result is not good. I ge

Re: scanning negatives

2008-02-07 Thread Skehan Adrian
I have seen it done by constructing a small box of Melamine with a globe inside, masking it to suit the size of the negative and sitting it on top of a scanner and It worked a treat. I cant remember the finer details so you may have to experiment a bit with the power of the globe. Regar

Re: scanning negatives

2008-02-06 Thread Mark Secker
flatbed scanners seem to do a good job with medium format stuff... these days even a professional quality flat bed scanner is under the $500 mark though make sure you get it with the back light lid. and a good scanner is handy for other stuff (prints with missing negatives... scanning

scanning negatives

2008-02-06 Thread Jo Brookes
I have a heap of old negatives that I would like to get scanned. The price of having them done seems quite high these days, with most photo outlets going digital. (Are there any old type photo booths left?) I have 110ml 135ml & 2" by 2" Hassleblad negatives. Also some really teensy ones f