Okay, now I'm on to a new project of taking about 1000 pictures, some have negatives, other's don't and convert them into a digital format? I have a lot of negatives of the photo's also, so would want to be able to preview them before I convert. I also have the slides, which I asked previously and got some good responses, as to preview them and convert them into digital. Now, I'm curious, is their a machine that does both?
@5unflow3r Hi, I already have a Epson Perfection, 2480 and I find it very difficult to work with. I know you can preview them, etc., but on older small pictures, for the life of me, we can't figure out how to get them like a 4 x 6 to then go into my i-photo library. They never come out the right size or I sure must be doing something wrong? Their has got to be a more simply way to do it. Like put your picture in there, run it through and it's scanned, goes right to i-photo on my Mac and it's done. Thanks and i'll be waiting to hear your reply.
I have never had a problem with the HP. It has holders for negs and slides and the scanned images always come out a normal size. Maybe your Epson is set for thumbnails?
@5unflow3r Thanks, I'll check that out, but the only thing it will do is scan photo's and documents and it's probably 5 yrs. old, so I'm sure the quality has gotten a lot better. If I'm going to do a 1000 pictures, I need it as simple as possible and that's just a guess. Thanks for the help. I will check those thumbnails and see how it works for me.
My Canon CanoScan 8800F is perfect! It is specifically made for this task and has three nylon templates you snap your film into (35mm, 120mm, or color slides). In fact, the scanner is hard at work right now scanning some 35mm I shot yesterday, and I scanned two rolls of 120mm earlier today. Here are a couple of other versions since I think they don't make the 8800F anymore: http://usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/scanners/film_negative_scanners/canoscan_8800f
I use a Nikon Coolscan. It does both slides and negs (its not a flatbed scanner so can't do photos or documents). There is an optional slide hopper which can hold many slides. Couple this with the batch processing facility will mean that you can get through the slide scanning fairly quickly. I've had this for about 10 years and I'm pleased with the results. I used to shoot alot of b/w neg and my father-law has around 50 years of slide photography that I'm steadily getting through. I guess it all depends on how much you have to sepnd. Its got 4000 dpi and 14 bit resolution.
@granny7 We also have the canoscan 8800F. But I was helping my f-i-l pick one the other day at Best Buy, and the new Canoscan looked to be a winner. He hasn't bought it yet, so I can't tell you how well it works, but it is likely very easy. It has 9600 x 9600 dpi capability.
@granny7 Mine is over 5 yrs. old, not totally sure, but to old I think and all it does is scan flat things. I need it to scan 100's of pictures as I preview them and convert them right away to digital. Mine has to go through so many steps just to get them on my husbands Mac, then it's mailed to me on my lap top and I have to download them. What a mess.
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