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Garry Douglas wrote:
> I've been looking at purchasing a scanner to digitise approximately
> 3,000 35mm slides, mostly non glass mounted but some still un-mounted
> in strips of 6.
>
> I can't justify purchasing a new model right now so thought I would
> look on eBay for a bargain! To my surprise there were no Canon,
> Minolta or Nikon scanners listed in the UK but there were a glut of
> Easypix USB powered fixed focus auto exposure scanners, such as the
> one below:
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Easypix-35mm-F...QQcmdZViewItem
>
> Basic specs are:
>
> Scanner for 35mm film strip and mounted slides
> 48-bit color depth
> 3600 dpi optical resolution
> One button scanning
> Hi speed scan and preview (0.5MS)
>
> Price is £74.50 including postage.
>
> I've always been a firm believer that you get what you pay for but
> wonder if anyone in this ng has any experience of this or similar
> budget scanners.
> I don't need to worry about APS or MF so a dedicated 35mm scanner
> would be ideal but I'm curious just how good or bad these budget
> models are and whether there are any better alternatives at this end
> of the market. I already have an Epson GT7000 flat bed scanner with a
> slide attachment hood but have always found the results to be very
> disappointing, particularly in terms of low contrast and lack of
> punch in the scans.
> Any thoughts, recommendations or suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Garry Douglas

If you look around you can get it from £40 The one bit of spec that is never
clearly stated is the Resolution.
I think its more like a digital camera mounted in a fixed stand with a lens
that focuses on the slide. Someone in here bought one But I would look at
canoscan 4400F for less money and much higher Quality the 8800 or HP and
Epson equivalents if you want even better. Only Nikon and Plustek, oh and
that Broun one, still make film only scanners.

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"Trev" <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote in message
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> The one bit of spec that is never clearly stated is the Resolution.

It states (in the small print) that it's a 5M pixel sensor with an
equivalent dpi of 1829. The 3600dpi figure is interpolated presumably which
makes the statement '3600dpi optical resolution' wrong and misleading.

I wouldn't touch it.

To the OP...

I don't know what you were looking at on ebay but there are several scanners
listed in the UK including Nikon, Canon and Minolta. Search for 'film
scanner' in all categories. I found 41 items all together, reduced to 30 if
you take out the Easypix ones.



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Garry Douglas wrote:
> "monopix" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> "Trev" <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> The one bit of spec that is never clearly stated is the Resolution.
>>
>> It states (in the small print) that it's a 5M pixel sensor with an
>> equivalent dpi of 1829. The 3600dpi figure is interpolated presumably
>> which makes the statement '3600dpi optical resolution' wrong and
>> misleading.
>>
>> I wouldn't touch it.
>>
>> To the OP...
>>
>> I don't know what you were looking at on ebay but there are several
>> scanners listed in the UK including Nikon, Canon and Minolta. Search
>> for 'film scanner' in all categories. I found 41 items all together,
>> reduced to 30 if you take out the Easypix ones.
>>
>>
>
> I think I searched on "35mm scanners" not "film scanners". Will give
> it another try.

Go back a page from the link you sent to Slide and film scaners

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Trev
You can always tell a Yorkshire man,
But you can't tell him much.