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From: andrew heggie on 28 Dec 2007 14:46
Following on from the Veho thread, is there a linux friendly flatbed
scanner with a slide adapter that can make reasonable images? My packard
bell (mustek) 2400 plus isn't listed by sane so I wish to replace it with
something in the sub 100 quid range, despite running linux for a couple
of years I haven't much expertise.

AJH
From: Gordon Henderson on 29 Dec 2007 02:44
In article <pan.2007.12.28.19.46.30.789877(a)sylva.icuklive.co.uk>,
andrew heggie <news(a)sylva.icuklive.co.uk> wrote:
>Following on from the Veho thread, is there a linux friendly flatbed
>scanner with a slide adapter that can make reasonable images? My packard
>bell (mustek) 2400 plus isn't listed by sane so I wish to replace it with
>something in the sub 100 quid range, despite running linux for a couple
>of years I haven't much expertise.

Have a look at VueScan to see if it supports your scanner.
http://www.hamrick.com/

It's not free, but it's cheap and you can try it for free.

However, maybe it's time to move to a digital camera... I went down the
route of trying to scan in my slides and negs some years ago, and gave
up... If I'd had the money at the time to buy a posh scanner with
auto-feeder, things might have been different, however scanning in one
slide at a time very quickly became rather tedious )-:

Gordon
From: andrew heggie on 29 Dec 2007 07:26
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:44:03 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:

> However, maybe it's time to move to a digital camera

I did for snaps in 2002 when I was presented with a nikon coolpix.

In fact for general document copying (and maps) I often prefer to lay the
document down and photograph it, for speed. It would still be nice to be
able to scan old slides though.

AJH

From: Ben Bacarisse on 29 Dec 2007 08:17
andrew heggie <news(a)sylva.icuklive.co.uk> writes:

> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:44:03 +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>
>> However, maybe it's time to move to a digital camera
>
> I did for snaps in 2002 when I was presented with a nikon coolpix.
>
> In fact for general document copying (and maps) I often prefer to lay the
> document down and photograph it, for speed. It would still be nice to be
> able to scan old slides though.

I had hundreds of old slides to digitise and I ended up using a old
Agfa slide viewer -- stack for slides, big lens in front, ground glass
screen and a bulb. By clamping it a table and mounting a digital
camera (with manual focus) on a tripod I could do them at more than
one a second. It was the re-loading of the slide that took the time.

The results were reasonable rather than brilliant, but the time saved
was huge.

--
Ben.
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