Film scanner
Oct 10, 2023 21:27:00 #
flyboy61
Loc: The Great American Desert
I'm looking at a Kodak Slide N Scan Scanner. The one with a 5" screen. It looks like I might be able to work with it.
Until today, I'd never heard of machines that will perform scanning to a memory card, apparently, making positives from color negatives, and some basic editing, also apparently allowing storage at 12 or 22 MP. Has anyone had experience with the machine, and is it basic-basic user friendly)? The price is right, but are there equivalent machines, or better ones for about the price?($150) What say, experts? Gonna check out Da'Tube, and see if they have tutorials or reviews.
Thanx!
Until today, I'd never heard of machines that will perform scanning to a memory card, apparently, making positives from color negatives, and some basic editing, also apparently allowing storage at 12 or 22 MP. Has anyone had experience with the machine, and is it basic-basic user friendly)? The price is right, but are there equivalent machines, or better ones for about the price?($150) What say, experts? Gonna check out Da'Tube, and see if they have tutorials or reviews.
Thanx!
Oct 11, 2023 09:52:05 #
That is relevant is the pixel resolution of the resulting JPEGs. The 5-inch screen is just a viewing device of the slide being scanned. Given the goal is a screen-filling JPEG and a file useful for digital editing, that scanner's view screen is just so you have the slide inserted correctly.
Looking online, it seems the device scans to a default 13MP, with some options maybe to achieve 22MP. Even at the 13MP, this is more than enough resolution to fill your 4K TV with scanned images of your slides. It looks like a lot of the price is for 'editing' capabilities, where really these edits should be done on the resulting JPEGs on your computer, with your best software and your larger monitor to see the image details.
Looking online, it seems the device scans to a default 13MP, with some options maybe to achieve 22MP. Even at the 13MP, this is more than enough resolution to fill your 4K TV with scanned images of your slides. It looks like a lot of the price is for 'editing' capabilities, where really these edits should be done on the resulting JPEGs on your computer, with your best software and your larger monitor to see the image details.
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