On May 11, 2005, at 9:28 AM, mike wilson wrote:
The Minolta one does 50 at a time. Looking more carefully, it may be nearer to 4000 slides, plus quite a lot of unmounted stuff....
WRT the possible new purchase - any recommendations for a scanner to batch large numbers? I'm inclined to go for a not quite front line version of the Minolta multi, which I can get for about �700 + the batch feeder, but am open to persuasion otherwise.
If I were taking a job to scan 1000+ mounted transparencies, the *ONLY* scanners I'd look at are those that include an automated slide mount feeder that would do more than 4 at a time. Nikon has that for their higher end film scanners, I don't know about the other manufacturers.
Which model is that? I didn't know that Minolta had a unit with that kind of automation capacity, but then I haven't looked at scanners very much lately (ah, the joy of going 100% digital process... ;-).
I think it was the Multi II. It's a bolt-on, which makes the already bulky scanner somewhat huge. I've only seen a picture on a boxshifter site, so will have to check if it is actually available from somewhere that I might get a bit of service from.
mike
