On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:47:04 +0000, in Technicolor® wrote:
> "ray" <ray@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:60ov0gF1rjng7U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:32:27 +0000, in Technicolor® wrote:
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>>> I have finally decided to get out those old negatives and slides and
>>> scan them to digital for later videos, slide shows and prints. I most
>>> have 35mm, but I do have some of parents negatives from the 50's that
>>> are larger format, like an old brownie style point and shoot camera
>>> with negatives about 2 to 3 inches in width. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Epson sells a perfection 4490 photo unit which sup****ts medium format
>> scanning for slides and negatives. I've done a couple of hunder scans
>> of medium format - works quite well. Got mine about a year and a half
>> ago refurb from the Epson online store for $125.
>
> Thanks for the info. It looks like most folks are using one of the
> Epson scanners of one sort or another with the occasional homebrewed or
> after-market frames for that odd size. I've seen the Epson's in the
> stores, like Office Depot, etc., and have been curious as to how
> photographers liked them.
I'm certainly not a professional photographer. When my mother died about
a year and a half ago, we discovered a large quantity of photos, slides,
negatives of various vintages - my sister is a genaeology freak and
insisted on having copies of everything. I'm quite pleased with the Epson
4490. Main reason I generally go Epson is good Linux sup****t at avasys.jp/
english. Got the 4490 because of it's ability to handle medium format
slides/negatives.
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