On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:06 PM, David Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > Back when I had an interest in scanning my old film, the common > recommendation was to buy a Nikon 5000 scanner off eBay, then resell > it when you were done with the project. Even at $500, you could > basically get your money back because it was the best consumer scanner > available and it was only available on eBay because it was > discontinued.
Nowadays, I recommend just sending any bulk quantity of images to scancafe.com. Much more sensible than spending all the time to learn and doing it yourself. The only reason I keep a film scanner around is to scan one or two oddball negs at a time quickly. And for oddities that no service knows how to deal with, like Minox film. Most of the time even then, using an appropriate copystand, lightbox, and high magnification macro setup is faster and produces better quality now anyway. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
