What slide scanner
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kojak

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Thursday 5th January 2012
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As the title says, im looking to buy one to put all my slides and negatives onto my PC. What do you recommrnd?

Muska

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211 months

Thursday 5th January 2012
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Having a little film revival recently and starting to look into this myself I purchased an Epson V500, after lots of good mentions. It;s not arrived yet though so I can't comment on it's usage.

kojak

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Thursday 5th January 2012
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Not heard of that one. Was looking at a plustek one. I'll have to compare

DIW35

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229 months

Thursday 5th January 2012
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Strangely I've been looking at doing this too, so I'll be interested to hear your thoughts and possibly see any results you might care to post up. At the moment I haven't got a clue which scanner to go for, but as I have got thousands of slides and negatives to do, it'll need to be one that is fairly easy to use.

kojak

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Friday 6th January 2012
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Any comments on the Plustek 7400 would be helpful.

Major Bloodnok

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244 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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Epson V700 or V750 - bee's knees and can scan up to 10x8 negs.

kojak

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Friday 6th January 2012
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Major Bloodnok said:
Epson V700 or V750 - bee's knees and can scan up to 10x8 negs.
Twice as much though. Didnt want to spend as much as that. £200 max.

Since asking about the Plustek, I've been been ringing round around a few shops. The general consenses is that it gives a better, sharper pic than the equivalent Epsome but is slower. Could be sales talk...lol.


Edited by kojak on Friday 6th January 17:01

Simpo Two

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294 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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You could always buy a really good one, do the job then (assuming you're not still shooting slides) sell it.

kojak

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Simpo Two said:
You could always buy a really good one, do the job then (assuming you're not still shooting slides) sell it.
Thats what I was going to do anyway. Thought £200 would buy me a good one.