I understand the economics. I don't have time to install a scanner right now. If I add anymore equipment around here, I'll have to put in another system. I just don't have time do it the way I'd like to right now. So, I thought I'd have a few slides scanned outside, and if possible, a few of these professionally restored for comparison with what I produce here. I can then decide how to handle the remaining inventory and what hardware investments might make sense.
Thanks you for your input....... Otis Wright Butch Black wrote: > How many slides do you have? If you only have a couple dozen getting them > done commercially would be viable. If you have a couple hundred, that's > another story altogether. Expect to spend at least a couple dollars each for > the scan, professional scans will be much more. > > If you have a large number of slides consider buying a film scanner and > doing them yourself. Both Minolta and Nikon make moderate priced scanners > (around $700) that come with Altamira group's Digital Ice3 (ice cubed) > software. Digital ice repairs scratches, dust specks etc, digital ROC > restores and corrects color. so you can make your images look almost good as > new. The only warning is that digital ice (I'm not sure about digital ROC) > DOES NOT WORK WITH KODACHROME. So if a lot of your slides are Kodachrome the > advantage of digital ice is lost. If you don't want to spend that kind of > money and aren't planning to try to restore the old slides Pacific images, > HP, and Canon all make scanners that will do an OK job for around $300. > > BUTCH > > "Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself" > Hermann Hesse (Demian) > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
