35mm slides onto CD ROM??

This could probably be answered at my local camera shop but as I was sitting here with nothing better to do ....

Got a load of 35mm transparencies that I'd like to put onto CD ROM for emailing buffonery (not pornographic I hasten to add .... sorry guys). Can it be done? If so, how much does it cost?

Regards

Retroman: Of course it can be done. Contact Snappy Snaps in Cardiff, ask for Kevin Parry (the owner) 0292 0465331 and he will provide you with all the information. Mention my name to smooth things out.
If further information needed, contact me.

Yosi

Yosi said:

Retroman: Of course it can be done. Contact Snappy Snaps in Cardiff, ask for Kevin Parry (the owner) 0292 0465331 and he will provide you with all the information. Mention my name to smooth things out.
If further information needed, contact me.

Yosi

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Blimey!!! There are some well-connected people on this forum .... cheers Yosi!!!!

Or buy a HP S20 Photo Scanner...
It can scan slides, pictures and negatives

I bought one some months ago and I'm very pleased with it..
SO if you cannot find anyone to scan your slides you could send them to me...

I too have an HP scanner that can scan slides - but it's not that useful for more than a handful of slides, as you can only set up 4 slides in a small frame and then place the light box over them and scan individually.

I have literally thousands of slides that I would like to scan (over a period of time) so if anyone has any suggestions on dedicated slide scanners that can automate the process I would be pleased to hear from them.

Iain

Epson 3200 photo

I bought an Epson 3200 Photo flatbed scanner that is a phenonenal resolution and has the transparancy light source in the lid and scans 4 mounted slides or 2 strips of 6 35mm slides or negs, does it all in one pass and lets you select all, some or one of the images.
#Its magic.

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Jimb said:

I bought an Epson 3200 Photo flatbed scanner that is a phenonenal resolution and has the transparancy light source in the lid and scans 4 mounted slides or 2 strips of 6 35mm slides or negs, does it all in one pass and lets you select all, some or one of the images.
#Its magic.

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How much did this scanner cost Jim? Got a quote today from Yosi's mate, £1.49 PER SLIDE, I've got a thousand = £1490.00

Same price as GPS, top box and aux lighting, think I'll pass for now .....

There are dedicated slide scanners out there from about £150 (?) but the well known brands (Canon, Nikon) start at ~£500 I think.

Anyone used either the cheap or the expensive ones?

Iain

Retroman

Epson 3200 Photo scanner £312.00 delivered from Dabs.com, it has a Firewire (IEEE 1394 ) and USB 2 Interfaces, I use the firewire and its shit hot, Optical resolution is 3200x6400 so beats my Nikon coolscan by a factor of 4 and its 48 bit colour depth and it was 1/3rd the price.
You do need Firewire and 2000 or XP to run it, a firewire card is £30.
I do at lot of digital imaging and this scanner is the dogs B's, its a high end scanner and comes with Silverfast SE software, this is a very very clever piece of scanning s/w that will isolate dirt and scratches on a slide, neg or photo and remove them at the moment of scanning.
To give you some idea of the resolution, my Nikon Coolscan 2 is 2700 dpi and produces a 28Mb data file from a 35mm slide, which is big enough to produce an A3 print, the Epson produces a 58mb file from the same slide at its optical resolution and a 257mb file at its interpolated resolution, believe me that is real good, night shots are tricky to scan but the 48 bit depth just does it first time every time.
As I said its a high end device and needs lots of memory (512mb) and Windows 2000 or XP to run the Firewire, oh and it comes bundled with Adobe Photoshop Elements, a good manipulation package.