TOT Film scanners

Anyone had experiance of the 35mm film and slide scanners that the
like of Maplins sell? Looking for a self containd type that records to
SD card. No way will I find drivers for a connected one for my old
OS/2 system. :-)

TIA
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Dave Saville

Dave Saville wrote:
Anyone had experiance of the 35mm film and slide scanners that the
like of Maplins sell? Looking for a self containd type that records to
SD card. No way will I find drivers for a connected one for my old
OS/2 system. :-)

TIA
Best way is to project the image and photograph it. I can give you
details if you like.

Bill

On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:30:33 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Dave Saville wrote:
Anyone had experiance of the 35mm film and slide scanners that the
like of Maplins sell? Looking for a self containd type that records to
SD card. No way will I find drivers for a connected one for my old
OS/2 system. :-)

TIA
The Lidl GBP35 one was unevenly lit, noisy, oversaturated by miles
and could not focus the whole frame at once. Otherwise it was fine.
I took it back.

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Anyone had experiance of the 35mm film and slide scanners that the
like of Maplins sell? Looking for a self containd type that records to
SD card. No way will I find drivers for a connected one for my old
OS/2 system. :-)


I've owned an Epson Perfection 1670 flat bed scanner for several years now,
it has a built in negative and slide adapter facility which gives extremely
satisfactory results on both 35mm negatives and transparencies and also
includes some good comprehensive software, incorporating features such as
dpi, colour correction, gamma, descreening, etc.
Last week my friend brought over something called a 'Traveller TV 6600 film
scanner with five megapixel' for me to try out, all I can say if it's
anything like that then don't touch it with a bargepole, compared to the
Epson the particular specimen I tested was a joke.

On 01/01/2011 21:15, Rick wrote:

"Dave Saville" wrote in message
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Anyone had experiance of the 35mm film and slide scanners that the
like of Maplins sell? Looking for a self containd type that records to
SD card. No way will I find drivers for a connected one for my old
OS/2 system. :-)


I've owned an Epson Perfection 1670 flat bed scanner for several years
now, it has a built in negative and slide adapter facility which gives
extremely satisfactory results on both 35mm negatives and transparencies
and also includes some good comprehensive software, incorporating
features such as dpi, colour correction, gamma, descreening, etc.
Last week my friend brought over something called a 'Traveller TV 6600
film scanner with five megapixel' for me to try out, all I can say if
it's anything like that then don't touch it with a bargepole, compared
to the Epson the particular specimen I tested was a joke.

Except that the Epson scanner needs to be connected to a PC running at
recent-ish version of Windoze (at a guess, W98 as an absolute minimum) -
which the OP doesn't have.

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On 01/01/2011 21:15, Rick wrote:
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Except that the Epson scanner needs to be connected to a PC running at
recent-ish version of Windoze (at a guess, W98 as an absolute minimum) -
which the OP doesn't have.
Cheers,
Roger


You mean there's someone outside central Africa who hasn't been able
to rummage around in an office dump to pick out a PC running XP?!

Get him to invest 20quid on a used PC made after 2000

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On 01/01/2011 16:21, Dave Saville wrote:
Anyone had experiance of the 35mm film and slide scanners that the
like of Maplins sell? Looking for a self containd type that records to
SD card. No way will I find drivers for a connected one for my old
OS/2 system. :-)

TIA

That's TWO OS/2 users out here on usenet...

It was a reasonable system. Was. Unless you want to keep having these
kind of problems you're going to have to get something else one day.

You could of course try to find Bob Eager, he's here somewhere.

Andy
Happy Epson 1670 user.

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On 01/01/2011 21:15, Rick wrote:

"Dave Saville" wrote in message
news:[email protected]
Anyone had experiance of the 35mm film and slide scanners that the
like of Maplins sell? Looking for a self containd type that records to
SD card. No way will I find drivers for a connected one for my old
OS/2 system. :-)


I've owned an Epson Perfection 1670 flat bed scanner for several years
now, it has a built in negative and slide adapter facility which gives
extremely satisfactory results on both 35mm negatives and transparencies
and also includes some good comprehensive software, incorporating
features such as dpi, colour correction, gamma, descreening, etc.
Last week my friend brought over something called a 'Traveller TV 6600
film scanner with five megapixel' for me to try out, all I can say if
it's anything like that then don't touch it with a bargepole, compared
to the Epson the particular specimen I tested was a joke.

Except that the Epson scanner needs to be connected to a PC running at
recent-ish version of Windoze (at a guess, W98 as an absolute minimum) -
which the OP doesn't have.



I was simply giving my assessment of the comparison I found between my Epson
1670 flat bed scanner and one of those cheapish film slide scanners, loaned
to me by a friend, which I presume is going to give equally as poor
performance on whatever OS it manages to run on.

On Saturday, January 1st, 2011 at 22:33:44h +0000, Java Jive wrote:

You could put a toe in the water by trying out a live cd.

Good advice.

One of, if not the best "Live CD" for hardware detection is Knoppix.

http://www.knoppix.NET/

On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 16:21:38 +0000 (UTC), "Dave Saville"
wrote:

Anyone had experiance of the 35mm film and slide scanners that the
like of Maplins sell? Looking for a self containd type that records to
SD card. No way will I find drivers for a connected one for my old
OS/2 system. :-)

TIA

With a little bit of ingenuity and a digital camera you can do it
yourself. Most cameras have macro, on a cloudy day, blue tak slide
to inside window, put white paper on OUTSIDE of window for diffusion,
also so that the camera does not photograph the paper surface. Take
picture.

Have done this with great results, and most newer cameras will have
better resolution than the 5.1 that these slide copiers offer.

With a bit more ingenuity you could make up a mount, and use camera on
tripod.