RE: OT: Film Scanner

[Tom C]

You'll find that slide/neg scanning is, as to be expected, a somewhat 
tedious process, but nevertheless rewarding.  The Minolta Dimage Scan Dual 
IV will allow 4 slides or a negative strip (5 frames I think) to be scanned 
in a batch scan mode.   It's 3200 DPI and runs around $240.

I suppose I could have paid double or triple for a higher end model, but so 
far I'm perfectly satisfied with it's performance.

Tom C.

From: Collin R Brendemuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: OT: Film Scanner
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:46:38 -0500
I'm looking @ a new small business venture.
Slides & negs go cheap @ auctions.  So I'm grabbing them up.
Sat. I got >1000 old kodachromes for $3.  That's a common price.
Most of them are dated shots from 1930s to 1970s.
Landscapes and city scapes from bygone years.
So I'm going to scan them and start a little stock business.
What's a practical and reasonably-priced scanner?
Or, among the better ones, what's the benefit of spending the extra?
I've got LOTS of slides to scan.  And negs as well.
Collin