Though not in actuality, but in spirit, we are a Pentax Camera Club. As such, I propose that as many of us that have copious slides to scan pool our funds, buy the thing, pay the $179 for a three year warranty, pool our Universal Slide Trays, and pass it around.
We could draw straws of a digital kind to see what order the machine should be used, or go by need, or second letter of the last name, or the like. I can't afford $1500 right now, but I can afford $300 - $400. If one of those who would be interested has never used "Bill Me Later" and has a good credit rating, the costs could be defrayed over a six month period with no fees, no interest. It has to be paid by six months or all accrued interest will be added at a high interest rate. So no fooling around, and no jumping in if you can't swim. There are two concurrent rebates available for this machine, which reduce the price another $300, to $999.99, plus the $178 warranty price for 3 yrs, $359.98 for 5 years. The machine must be purchased by 12/31/2011, and the rebate forms mailed by January 14th, 2012. If the need is there, and you have the time to spend a week or a month or two scanning all your 35mm slides for the historical record, and if you have a large enough hard drive to hold the results, get in touch. On Dec 23, 2011, at 08:29 , John Sessoms wrote: > If they allowed you to use the machine 24x7 you could get it done in a week. > > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > >> Now that would a handy thing to have somewhere nearby. I've got about >> 10,000 slides to scan ... >> >> G >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Stan Halpin >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> As an adjunct faculty member with a large midwestern state university I >>> receive 10-12 emails a day with everything from tornado alerts to notices >>> of pending water shutoffs for drinking fountain repair. One of today's >>> notes was a bit different: ?"The Media Development Center in 213 Hale >>> Library has recently added an automated 35mm slide scanner. The Pacific >>> Image PowerSlide 3650 is designed to convert large numbers of 35mm mounted >>> slides into digital files that can be searched, processed, printed, or >>> delivered electronically. Scanning 50 mounted slides takes approximately 50 >>> minutes, or 1 side per minute. The impresssive optical resolution of 5000 >>> dpi produces digital files that remain true to the original images. >>> Equipment in the Media Development Center is available for use by all >>> faculty/staff and students." >>> >>> Unfortunately campus is 1100 miles away. >>> >>> stan > > -- > 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. Joseph McAllister [email protected] THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and The eyesight to tell the difference. -- 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.
