I would encourage you to scan a few negatives/transparencies, measure the time it takes and extrapolate to cover all your negatives/positives.
When I did that years ago, I quickly realized that scanners are just too slow for what I wanted to do in a time given to me by mother nature - by couple of orders of magnitude, actually. Plus the scan quality was not that great either. The solutions to speed things up are either: a) adapter for your digital camera + automation. That way you can scan and postprocess hundreds of pictures a day instead of a few with slow scanners. With half decent DSLR, you will get high quality scans. b) send the stash out for someone else to scan them. There are a few big and decent companies still doing it. That is what I have eventually settled on. The price is good and the quality is decisively better than from a desktop scanner with transparency adapter. Until I went through this scanning discovery, I naively believed in great quality of film photography compared to digital. I was so wrong - today's digital imaging is vastly superior, especially to old/aged films. I hope that you find my comments useful, Tomas On Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 11:54 AM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > There is a guy in Seattle named Andrew Filer, who I met in a > then-hackerspace called Metrix:Create who modified a Kodak Carousel > projector in such a way as to backlight the slides (reduced wattage of the > bulb, replaced the heat shield with frosted glass), basically used the > projector as a slide advancing robot, removed the lens, and aimed a digital > SLR with a macro lens back at the slide and photographed the slide. With > some simple transistor circuits, you could automate the camera's shutter > release and the slide advance. You could do a whole tray of slides in a > few minutes with very little supervision. > > You need a digital SLR and a macro lens, preferably one with autofocus (as > I discovered). But orders of magnitude less tedious than a flatbed scanner > where you manually loaded slides into a holder, 12 at a time. > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Denis Heidtmann < > denis.heidtm...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Russell, > > > > I would be interested in the method. Picture of a screen? > > > > -Denis > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 11:03 AM, Russell Senior < > > russ...@personaltelco.net> > > wrote: > > > > > Gotcha. I don't have any better solutions for that. > > > > > > If they were slides, I'd suggest the method I used in Seattle a few > years > > > ago, that went through about 3000+ slides in kodak projector carousels > is > > > an afternoon. Automation++. > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Michael Rasmussen < > mich...@jamhome.us> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Of primary interest are 2 1/4 x 2 3/4 (6x9cm) negatives from my > > > > grandparents. After that 35mm negatives. > > > > > > > > I was entrusted to my grandparents' negatives and am feeling a > > > > responsibility to scan them into digital files for my relatives. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2018-06-27 10:10, Russell Senior wrote: > > > > > > > >> What kind of transparencies? If they are 35mm slides, and lots of > > them, > > > >> there is a better way. > > > >> > > > >> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Michael Rasmussen < > > mich...@jamhome.us> > > > >> wrote: > > > >> > > > >> In another group, it was suggested I try Vuescan from > > > >>> https://www.hamrick.com/ > > > >>> The free Linux download untars to three binaries. > > > >>> > > > >>> It just works. > > > >>> > > > >>> Now to, when I have time, figure out the issue with xsane. > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> On 2018-06-26 18:37, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> I've acquired an Epson V500 flatbed scanner. After immediate > install > > of > > > >>>> xsane and the Epson iscan drivers scanning does not work. I've > > added > > > >>>> myself to the scanner group and done a bit of unproductive > googling. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> The sympton can be summed up: > > > >>>> > > > >>>> michael@camper:~$ scanimage -L > > > >>>> device `epson:libusb:001:006' is a Epson flatbed scanner > > > >>>> michael@camper:~$ scanimage -T > > > >>>> scanimage: rounded value of br-x from -32768 to -32768 > > > >>>> scanimage: rounded value of br-y from -32768 to -32768 > > > >>>> scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument > > > >>>> michael@camper:~$ > > > >>>> > > > >>>> If you have a cluestick on what needs to be done, I'm ready for a > > > whack. > > > >>>> > > > >>> > > > > -- > > > > Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon > > > > Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > PLUG mailing list > > > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
