[WEB4LIB:14732] Re: Slide or negative scanners

[Mike Mitchell]

I did a bunch of slides at home with a Microtek E3 with the adapter. They
turned out well if the negative was decent. Oddly enough, some of my best
results were from slides at least 45 years old! It's a slow tedious process
though. I've heard that a dedicated slide scanner, though rather expensive
(>$600), produces superior results and is much faster.

Mike Mitchell
Tech Services Librarian/System Administrator
Dittlinger Memorial Library
New Braunfels, TX 
mdm at nbpl.lib.tx.us

At 11:00 AM 8/5/98 -0700, you wrote:
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>I have just bought a Microtek ScanMaker Pro E6 with a
>(separately purchased) adapter. It takes slides and negatives,
>with special holders for each. The adapter essentially is a hood or
>scanner cover with a lightsource in it. 
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>It arrived yesterday, so I have not had experience with it yet.
>It comes with Adobe Photoshop.
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>Nancy C. M. Ross
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>On 8/5/98, at 8:37 AM, Jim Schick wrote: 
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>>We have had great success with scanning traditional slides using the
>adapter
>>that comes with the HP Scanjet 6100C flatbed scanner. We scale the image
>up
>>about 500% during the scan process to get a good sized image. I would
>think
>>you could scan transparencies without too much trouble, but have never
>tried
>>to scan negatives.....
>>
>>Jim Schick
>>Automation Specialist
>>Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
>>Topeka, Kansas USA
>>jschick at tscpl.lib.ks.us
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Angus Heriot <heriot at olywa.net>
>>To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
>>Date: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 9:04 PM
>>Subject: [WEB4LIB:14720] Slide or negative scanners
>>
>>
>>>Speaking of digitizing picture collections, does anyone have experience
>>with scanners that can scan the images directly from transparencies?  We
>are
>>planning to put up some samples of pictures from our historical archives,
>>but a lot of the best pictures in our files seem to be either large old
>>slides, or negatives.  It would be great if there was a way to scan them
>>right in, without getting them printed first.
>>>
>>>-Jean
>>>
>>>
>>>Jean Heriot
>>>Washington State DOT Library
>>>heriotj at wsdot.wa.gov
>>>http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/hq/library/
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