Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Photo scanners?

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Most flatbed scanner companies of any reputation have models with ADF 
options (There's an old HP sitting here in CTIE with one.) but of course 
they accept full sheets.  I don't know if it would be important to you 
to have it only feed certain sized media, or if you would use software 
that would just throw anything the ADF grabs onto the glass and then 
auto recognizes the photo boundaries and crops and straightens for you.

As far as slide scanning, my friend Bart Larson has an epson with a 
plugin hood for scanning slides at ultra high resolution.  The quality 
matches what he used to pay a lot of money to Columbia Photo for. 
There's a frame that holds the slides that sits on the glass, and then 
the hood plugs into the same socket the ADF plugs into, and in the hood 
is a high intensity light to push light through the slides towards the 
photo sensor.

He can do 4 slides at a time I think, and the software auto-boundaries 
and crops them into separate files.  No need for straightening as the 
slide frame locks into the hood and alignment never changes.

Pretty cool.

Nathan Odle wrote:
> Are you saying you want something other than a flatbed scanner?  I'm not 
> aware of anything that has an ADF-type feed for snapshot-sized prints, 
> but maybe they exist. It sounds like you're describing such an animal, 
> but I've got no experience in that department.
>
> Kinko's will cost you an arm-and-a-leg to have anything scanned.
>
> That all being said, if you still have the negatives you're probably 
> best off either purchasing a film scanner or sending them out somewhere 
> to have them scanned.  Quality will be higher and they scan quickly.
>
> -N
>
> McIntosh Jason wrote:
>
> > I'm looking (well, starting to look) for a scanner which can scan more 
> > than one or two pictures at once.  I'd really like to be able to take 
> > my old photo albums and scan in one whole album at a time.  Has anyone 
> > purchased such a scanner before?  Any product recommendations?  I've 
> > seen a few out there, but most look like they bend the picture, which 
> > I was hoping to avoid.
> >
> > Another option, less preferable, would be to have someplace like 
> > Kinko's or similar do the scanning of the images and saving to a 
> > file.  The problem is I've got hundreds of photos to scan in, and I 
> > suspect this would be more expensive than it's worth.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> > Thanks!
> > Jason
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