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TallPaul ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 17 March 2006 Country: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 2824 |
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I just bought a CanoScan 8600 which I think is in this price range, and am very happy with it so far, the film holders are quite easy to use, although I have not really had a really really good play with negative scanning as yet. |
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catlady ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 05 March 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 306 |
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I've got a Canoscan 9900F, which I want to upgrade from.
I was considering the Microtek i900, which comes in the same sort of price as the V750. But it looks like the V700 may be good enough for me...I want to save lots of old colour slides and b&w, plus some colour neg film; and I have a project to shoot b&w film again so need to be able to get that into the Mac. Does anyone have any experience of the i900 to compare with the Epsons? Thanks. |
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analytical ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 30 January 2007 Country: United States Location: Texas Status: Offline Posts: 3069 |
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Sorry for the delay in answering. 35mm color negatives mostly. Both selected old ones and a few new, but low volume. I also have some old ektachrome slides I may want to do a few of. |
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MostlyHarmless ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 20 February 2007 Status: Offline Posts: 210 |
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The Plustek models are probably fine for you. I'd highly recommend investing in Vuescan to get features like multisampling and multiexposure. I'd also recommend springing for the 7200i model because dust management can be an enormous pain.
Just remember that the specs don't really mean a whole lot - you're not actually going to get 7200dpi worth of resolution and from what I've seen, you need to do a lot of tweaking to get the colors right. |
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catlady ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 05 March 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 306 |
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I've now borrowed a Scan Dual III from a friend. It scans B&W fine, also 8-bit colour. But when I tried 16-bit colour the scan came out very dark and with a severe colour shift towards the purple. I'm using a Mac.
The little handbook isn't very helpful! Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. |
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colmo ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 05 August 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 152 |
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I'll bet you scanned it in 16-bit linear mode - it has no tone curve/gamma applied to it, instead leaving that up to you in PP (using Levels or colour profile, see below). You could try the other 16-bit mode. For the colour shift, use the supplied scanner profiles; I know KM includes one for 16-bit linear scans. After opening the scan in Photoshop (if you have it), it'll ask you what colour space you want to use - you choose 'assign to' and select the 16-bit (posi) linear profile from the drop down, and 'convert to the working RGB'. I'm afraid I don't remember how the profiles are installed, can anyone else help? Edited by colmo - 18 May 2007 at 00:00 |
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Shaocaholica ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 14 July 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Posts: 1881 |
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I have an Elite 5400II and I want to get the most out of 16bit raw scanning. So whats all this talk about KM supplied profiles? I'm using vuescan and I guess it doesn't come with or apply any profiles for raw scanning but I could tell it to. Should I use the KM supplied 16bit linear profile or should I make my own using a 24x36 color chart slide/neg? Do scanners suffer from color shifting with age?
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catlady ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 05 March 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 306 |
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Thanks Colmo, makes sense. Unfortunatey I don't seem to have profiles with the software lent to me! I'll have to see if I can find them on the Web somewhere. Correction....I've found them! Automatically installed with the software, just not to where I expected them to be. Edited by catlady - 18 May 2007 at 09:19 |
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colmo ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 05 August 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 152 |
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You might find **Broken link (Sep 15 2013):this useful.
I'm pretty sure the profiles are bundled into the drivers somewhere. They carry the file extension *.icc or *.icm, and a quick hunt around my PC has revealed files in both \Windows\system32\color (for my old Dual II) and \Windows\system32\spool\drivers\color (for my Elite 5400) - I believe Photoshop looks in the latter for profiles automagically. Edited by rovhazman - 16 September 2013 at 01:48 |
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catlady ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 05 March 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 306 |
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Thanks Colmo for the link, the updated driver has made all the difference, the scanner now works a treat!
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Bob J ![]() Admin Group ![]() Dyxum Administrator Joined: 23 December 2005 Country: United Kingdom Location: London Status: Offline Posts: 27041 |
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Has anyone got experience of an Epson V350? It is supposed to have a film scanning slot in the lid and is a step up from the V100 - at under L90 (I think I've seen it that low) it looks reasonable value...
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devonman ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 30 March 2020 Country: United Kingdom Status: Offline Posts: 1 |
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re Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400 II
Originally installed on pc with winXP, a couple of years back I decided to try and use on machine with win10. My understanding was that the original Minolta software would not work, so installed Vuescan. After successfully using for some time, I began to have problems scanning B&W negatives. The scanner would stick at Focus on 99%. Contacted Ed Hamrick - he suggested trying different USB cable, port etc. None of his suggestions worked. I opened up scanner and sucked any dust out with vacuum. That seemed to do the trick. A few days on and the same problem. Each time there was never a problem scanning slides. So today googling I came across a possible work around within this thread to get the Minolta software to work with win10. As this needed an install of the original software - I restarted PC and before using the work around I went to open the now installed Dimage software and hey presto it works. The work around to provide the correct drivers is not necessary. I have deleted the proposed workaround, switched off the PC a couple of times and the software still works. So my point - if you have the original CD and win10 - install and see what happens. |
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keith_h ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 22 May 2006 Country: Australia Location: Australia Status: Offline Posts: 3124 |
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Aldi sometimes sell a cheap and cheerful scanner, Meridon 2 in 1 Film and slide scanner. Part 47028.
Before anyone goes pffft, Aldi... works well enough for casual scans. I got mine for $20 on a runout so no complaints from me. http://offers.kd2.org/en/au/aldi/pUFH/ |
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Minolta80 ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 13 August 2012 Status: Offline Posts: 3 |
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It's an old thread but my recommendation is to look out for old Slidefilm scanners with an SCSI interface. Most people arent aware on how easy it's to get them running on modern systems and sell them cheap.
I got an Nikon ls2000 for a few Euros at a fleamarket, then I got an 1996 Adaptec SCSI card from ebay as there are (custom)drivers for them on the internet for Win10 and I also already had Vuescan. I have to admit those old Slidefilm scanners do mostly need a service- I did it myself as it was very dusty. However, the quality of the scans are just beyond believe. Thanks to integrated ICE dust and scratches are no issues and man it's quick! |
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