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From: ellebelly on 5 May 2008 21:05

I have all my families slides and want to scan them to put onto cd/dvd
for the rest of my family. Which scanner would be best? I have also
seen a Hammacher Schlemmer slide converter. I have a lot of slides and
that is why I will be attemptiing this project on my own.

ellebelly


From: tomm42 on 7 May 2008 08:30
On May 5, 9:05 pm, ellebelly <ellebelly.390...(a)no.email.invalid>
wrote:
> I have all my families slides and want to scan them to put onto cd/dvd
> for the rest of my family. Which scanner would be best? I have also
> seen a Hammacher Schlemmer slide converter. I have a lot of slides and
> that is why I will be attemptiing this project on my own.
>
> ellebelly


I think the V700 is a step above the 4990 or the 4490, for my pro work
the V700 has been great. Is it worth the $3-400 difference between the
V700 and the 4490 for family pictures is up to you. The HS slide
converter doesn't look like a quality product to me. If you are doing
a major scanning project have a good book to read. One very nice thing
about the V700 is that it takes 12 slides at a time, you can adjust
each slide separately, and just let it scan. At 3200ppi 12 slides will
take about 1/2 hour without Digital Ice or 1 hr with Digital Ice.

Tom
From: Barry Watzman on 7 May 2008 09:01
Actually, I'd recommend a Nikon film scanner rather than a flatbed
scanner. Models to consider would be LS-30, LS-40, LS-2000, LS-4000.
Be sure that you get one that has been cleaned and serviced. But no
matter how you do this, it's tremendously time consuming, might take
hundreds of hours if you have thousands of images.


ellebelly wrote:
> I have all my families slides and want to scan them to put onto cd/dvd
> for the rest of my family. Which scanner would be best? I have also
> seen a Hammacher Schlemmer slide converter. I have a lot of slides and
> that is why I will be attemptiing this project on my own.
>
> ellebelly
>
>
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