Hi,
To occupy some of my free time in 'Joblesstrackworld', I've decided to scan all my film negatives to my laptop.
As I have very little of my redundancy money left I need recommendations for a cheap negative scanner or if anyone knows of a place where I can hire one. Or, getting really cheeky, if someone has one I could borrow for the duration for which I would happily pay insured postage both ways.
Thanks
John
John
I have a MicroTek Filmscan35 (Primefilm 1800u) which I'd happily lend you for however long you need. Having said that, looking at the price of newer, higher resolution models, I wonder if it would really be worthwhile paying the postage. Email me though and we'll see what we can do?
I use an Epson flat bed with negative adapter. I only really bought a flat bed as it I need to scan odd size negatives from a rotary lens camera. I have been pleasantly surprised by the results.
I've got a minolta dimage that you can borrow if you want. I haven't used it for a while, so will have to check it's working ok - it had a quirk though, of sometimes ejecting the film carrier after scanning the first frame of a strip.
It's a lot smaller than a flatbed scanner, so postage wouldn't be much- wher are you?
the guardian were doing them for £12.95
for a decent one Jessops do one (Might be that Microtek one above) that used to be £170. It could scan to higher resolutions and produce TIFF files rather than just JPEGS like the cheap ones meaning you are getting as good a quality as you could. It came with basic adjustment software I think.
Where are you based? If in London or nearby, I could help you out. I have a high-res Minolta Dimage scanner, which gives very high quality scans.
Thanks for all the replies guys and the especially the offers of the loans from druidh and vinnyeh..
RudeBoy, I'm Guildford so you're probably the nearest to me and I'd be very grateful for the loan.
Can you email me on jova54@tiscali.co.uk so that I can take you up on the offer?
Thanks
John
I'm afraid it's not something I'd loan out. If you were to send me some stuff, I could sort them out for you. How many would you have in mind?
Sorry RudeBoy misunderstood your post and thanks for the email. I appreciate your position
I've got about 3,000 negatives which I just want an electronic scan of so in terms of time I'd rather waste my own rather than someone elses.
Back to plan A with apologies to druidh and vinnyeh.
Vinnyeh where are you in the UK and would you be prepared to loan/ship your scanner to me? email as above.
Cheers
John
3000? Wow!
TBH, buying a scanner of your own woon't be a bad investment. Try Jessops; they've always got a good range of stuff. And oyu could either flog it on ebay, after, or just keep it (you can charge others to scan in old pics and that, make a couple of quid here and there).
John, that's a lot of negs, and it'll take a long time to run them through. Should occupy you for a few weeks.
I'm in South London at the moment, email's in my profile.
Jova54, If you're interested I've got my Dad's Nikon Coolscan LS-30 for sale. I was about to put it onto evilbay for him but if you're interested I'm sure he'd prefer to sell without using the 'bay'.
I'm in west London if that helps.
Druidh, did you get my email response. I've got some problems with tiscali at the moment and I'm sure some are going missing.
Cheers RaglanSurf, I think I'm OK at the moment but I'll keep you in mind.
jova54 - ygm