I'm working my way through my own old film & a family archive. I don't
think it would be cost effective to send the work out because it's in so
many different forms.
I have 35mm slides & negatives of my own along with 120 transparencies &
negatives and 4x5 transparencies & negatives.
The family archive consists of 35mm plus 126/127 negatives along with a
few 8x10 negatives from when my grandmother had a studio back in the
1920s. I also have a lot of old prints (1940s through 1970s) for which I
have no negatives.
I'm using the Nikon CoolScan IV ED (LS-40) for all the 35mm & an Epson
V750-M Pro for the others.
I can go through a roll while sitting here at the computer doing other
things on-line.
A couple of problems I've run into & had to solve -
A lot of my old slides & negatives are survivors from Hurricane Fran and
REALLY nasty. The best tool I've found for cleaning them are flushable
baby wipes. If I need to I can scrub fairly hard without scratching the
film. And I don't have to take old Kodachrome out of paper mounts.
Once I have them clean I take my hair dryer and blow dry them on the
lowest setting. That seems to cause the surface of the emulsion to
smooth out. I try not to let the slide get too hot. Doesn't get all the
dirt off of them, but it gets them clean enough that VueScan's IR Clean
can handle it.
The other thing is I'm finding rolls of film that were never cut into
strips. They were rolled up inside film canisters & left for years. I
have a container of Kodak Photo-Flow mixed & I soak the coiled film in
it for a while & then hang it over the bathtub with weights to
straighten it out while it dries. I use the flushable baby wipes to
squeegee it & again blow dry it with a low setting on my hair dryer.
I found a Matin film cutter on Amazon that gives me a lot more precision
than I ever had when I was cutting strips with scissors.
I'm saving everything from VueScan as .DNG files (which I think are just
a wrapper around 16 bit Tiffs).
On 4/7/2017 16:04, Mark C wrote:
Depends on what you want to use the scans for. If you are digitizing a
family archive or plan to just use the scans for web use a V600 might be
fine. Or as others have suggested, use a service. If you are doing
higher end work I would look at a V800 or V850.
I'm using a Nikon LS8000 for 35mm and 120 scans. When it dies I plan to
go with an Epson 800 or 850. But - I only scan negatives these days (B&W
and color) - no slides. Slides are more demanding, though I expect that
the V800/850 could handle them fine. I don't know about the V600 and
slide film.
- Mark
On 4/7/2017 11:45 AM, Doug Brewer wrote:
I've been cleaning out my storage room in the basement, AKA The Camera
and Computer Museum, and have uncovered boxes and boxes of slides,
some of which are passable photos, and have become interested in maybe
scanning some of them. I've looked here and there at digital slide
scanners.
So my query, if you haven't figured it out by now, is if any of you
have gone down this path, and whether you have found a decent scanner.
I'd appreciate any guidance.
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