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Old 02-03-2008, 02:37 AM
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35 mm film scanner

Am considering on getting a 35 mm film scanner, I have many 35 mm negatives that were taken over the years of mainly my antler handle folders.

Any recomendations would be appreciated.

Also, had a darkroom and finally sold it all for peanuts, digital photography was in. Now I miss the capability of enlarging a 35MM negative and drawing from it on white paper for illustration.

Now am bidding on Ebay for a enlarger, lesson, never get rid of all your stuff.

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Old 02-03-2008, 06:05 AM
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No recommendations. But let us know if you get that enlarger for peanuts....

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Old 02-03-2008, 08:33 AM
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Will do Coop, It's a Vivitar, not top dollar brand but should work fine if I get the auction.

Along with the photo stuff I sold was a old large Kodak, lots of cast iron, 5 X 7 enlarger that had a rack and pinion cam feature that kept it in focus as the lens bellows assembly was raised and lowered.


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Old 02-03-2008, 10:48 AM
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I have a whole mess of 35mm color slides that I need to get digitized. I think my wife threw my projector out yers ago.
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Old 02-04-2008, 07:47 AM
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Coop, got the enlarger for $25, shipping about $19, it will be a welcome tool back.

B, I was curious about film scanning services, googled 35mm film scanning and many sites popped up, here is one.

Read some about film scanning on the internet, one article said a flatbed scanner could be used. Tried it with a Microtek at 4000 dpi. I doubt that the scanner is capable of 4000 dpi, anyway the file size was 120MB scanning a strip of four black and white 35 mm negatives. Wow, film scanning would eat up memory in a hurry.

I am going to do a lot of research before thinking about buying a scanner.

The prices on the website below seem reasonable when facing all the story problems that a film scanner may bring. I am going to have some film scanned with them as a test.


http://www.digmypics.com/OE/Pricing.aspx


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Old 02-04-2008, 11:16 AM
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We bought the Epson 4490 Photo flatbed scanner several years ago. We were very happy with the preformance and the quality of the scanned negs. Yes,it does take a lot of memory to do any photo editing and you need to weigh the cost of time,etc. link to scanner review.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1865046,00.asp
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Old 02-06-2008, 09:32 PM
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I was going to do some test film scans with



http://www.digmypics.com/OE/Pricing.aspx


but was so impressed with their website and information sent the whole batch of 130, 35 mm b/w film images off to them. These are for a rewrite of a publication which may go out of print. I am trying a ebook/pdf publication, first time and learning a lot. If by chanch it goes South, I have original prints which I was scanning for the publication.

Sometimes you just gotta try something new.


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