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I know there's a few digital photo people on here so can anyone recommend me a 35mm negative scanner?
Not looking for a professional one just something that would be easy to use and produce good results, unlikely I'll be blowing the scans up to bigger than say a standard 7x5 photo size, maybe to A4 for the odd one but unlikely, not bothered about a preview screen if it's a better quality scan but could be useful. I've seen some for £30 to £50 but happy to spend a bit more.
If anyone's got some good links to 2014 sale scanners that are good please post.
Thanking you
Erm, 😕 ... anyone?
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My Canon multifunction printer does negative scanning (Pixma MP990). The odd time I've used it for this, the results have been impressive. Was considerably more than £50 but does lots of other things too - including shop quality photo prints.
Do it mail order - well worth the cost IMO
I have just used http://slidebox.co.uk/ for a mahoosive bunch of slides, excellent service
The £50 'film scanners' from Maplin etc are crap. They are not really scanners, they are essentially just taking a photo. Very poor quality results IME. Often out of focus, and poorly exposed etc.
I'm now using a Plustek Opticfilm slide scanner. Cost about £200, and can get very good results. Though it is rather slow, especially if you want to tweak each image etc. If you have a lot of photos, it will take a while.
So maybe quicker/cheaper just to send them off to be scanned.
What CraigW says. I bought one because I got it particularly cheap (30 quid-ish) but frankly it is just a waste of time.
I bought one for about £80. It had got pretty good write-ups on Amazon.
It made me a lot more cautious about Amazon reviews.
I'd happily pay the 20p to 40p a slide for a pro to do it after having a crack at it myself (infact I did pay 40p a go for 300 of my late dads slides).
We also had some undeveloped black and white film processed and put on disk. They had sat in a bedroom drawer for 40 years and they came out fine!
I got a Reflecta X7* really just to sort the wheat from the chaff, with the intention of getting any good shots pro scanned. Haven't had to do that yet 😳
Bought it over a used v700 (for example) as I have absolutely no other use for a scanner so I don't want something like that taking up space.
While it's not producing amazing quality images, it's fine for sharing with the fam or online. I am however only scanning 35mm BW negs... for colour YMMV.
You can find some samples [url= https://www.google.es/search?q=reflecta+x7-scan+reviews&safe=off&biw=1366&bih=636&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=GWBLVZLHNo2P7Abwx4DwBw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAw#safe=off&tbm=isch&q=reflecta+x7-scan ]here[/url] (not mine), I got it on ebay but forget how much it was.
*not actually a scanner, it's a digi camera with a lightbox in essence.