HardwareSlide scanning / digitizing

 

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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)     
43051.9 In reply to 43051.8 
Hrm, I think I thought I'd looked for that and not found anything, but I guess I hadn't actually looked.

Nikon do one, though obviously it has an uncommon thread size... I think it'll fit my Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX, and of course it's £150/160 new, or £115 from the nearest used/refurbished shop, where I could physically confirm it fits, and test whether my extension tubes allow close enough focusing. That's still a fair amount of money for a few bits of plastic.

For a similar price there's a Kenro 302 scanner which can be used standalone and outputs to SD card - though is only 8MP JPGs instead of the cropped 16MP NEF raw files my camera would give, but would probably still be good enough.

But then, I do have a diffuser already, so if that can sufficiently blur the pixels of a bright white screen (I need to go get it and test), then the rest might be tedious but ultimately solvable.

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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)     
43051.10 In reply to 43051.4 
p.s. Thanks for your response too - I'm not deliberately ignoring you, just couldn't think of a reply.
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      
43051.11 In reply to 43051.10 
I said nothing useful, no worries!
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 From:  koswix  
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      
43051.12 In reply to 43051.1 
Various light box/light sources + DSLR set ups that give good results, but it you want a faster solution then would recommend the Plustek Optiscan range. I tried the Epson mentioned above and found it to be awful (had several dead lines on the light source)

I bought one to digitise a load of old film and slides. Didn't bother with the bundled software just used it straight from VueScan. My approach was to get a nice flat well exposed scan and then used a Lightroom plugin to develop them based on profile of the film chemistry they came from (forget the name of it, cost about 20 quid I think)


Once I was done I sold the scanner back on eBay for about 30 quid less than I paid for it 8 months earlier.

https://plustek.com/gbr/products/film-photo-scanners/opticfilm-8200i-se/


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