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Members' Lounge => Hobbies and Interests => Topic started by: martin on April 05, 2012, 09:38:21 am
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I have a large collection of old slides and negatives that I want to scan digitally to my computer. I have looked at various flat bed and the other box shaped scanners, however, when I read the reviews of people who have purchased a particular model, there are so many negative comments that I am now completely confused. Can anyone on the Forum recommend a scanner please? One of the additional problems I have is that I have quite a large quantity of the square format slides from the 60's and 70's, I am fairly certain that the modern scanners do not support this format, but again, if anybody can suggest a way of scanning these slides I would be very grateful. I am hoping that DaveR with his wealth of experience may have some suggestions. I have a fairly small budget for a scanner, £200 - £300, so one of the high end scanners costing thousands is well beyond my reach.
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I only have a cheap scanner for using with old postcards etc, so can't offer a lot of advice.
Would something like this be suitable:
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?ix=ucb&q=slide+scanner&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=1239387221470051405 (http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?ix=ucb&q=slide+scanner&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=1239387221470051405)
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We bought this one about 18 months ago and it has been fine (touch wood)!
http://www.kikatek.com/product_info.php?products_id=155863&source=froogle (http://www.kikatek.com/product_info.php?products_id=155863&source=froogle)
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Thanks DaveR and Hollins. I will follow them up, one question Hollins, does your scanner do slides and negatives please?
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Yes, it does slides and negatives.
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Gezzy's Mum bought one of those film scanners (DaveRs link) off the internet a few months ago and I used it to transfer all her husbands old slides of Llandudno onto his computer and it's excellent.
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Thank you all for your suggestions, I think I have settled on one.