[Shop-talk] 35mm slide scanner?

[Douglas Braun]

I have a Dimage, which I last used about 5 years ago.  I managed to
get through about 2/3 of my piles of old color negatives.  I recently
was thinking of doing some more, but it turned out that Minolta is no
more, and they never released drivers for Vista or Win7...

For reference, where is a scan of a 35mm slide (Velvia?) from my scanner:

  http://www.dougbraun.com/pix/img0006.tif

(Warning: it is a huge 14 MB TIFF.)


I agree, it is tedious, and it may be worth paying somebody to do it.

BTW, I bet that any accessory that allows a regular flatbed scanner to
scan 35mm will do a terrible job.

Doug

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:12 PM, John Miller <jem at milleredp.com> wrote:
>> I know there are slide scanners out there, anyone have any
>> experience with such beasts?
>
> Yeah, I bought a Minolta Dimage, it worked okay but doing any significant
> volume of slides took forever.
>
> Decided I was better off sending them off to ScanCafe.
>
> John.