ksgcslater

I'm looking into maybe getting a scanner to scan old negatives and possibly slides. After looking at some other discussions on here and reviews, I still had some questions.
When you scan negatives, how long does the scan take at a decent resolution?
How can you save the files-jpg, tiff or png or even psd?
When you do strips of negatives, do you have to go back in and crop each individual photo and save it?
And I'm assuming you can open the files up in PSE for further editing, right?

guy145 Loc: Norridge IL

I have a epson ev500. It does color negitive 35-120mm. With the film strips it seperates ea picture. I scan to tif and ea pic take about 2 min. I do B&W negs too.

cdsforme Loc: Annapolis, MD

I have an Epson Perfection V600 Photo Scanner that I bought after reading the recommendations on UHH. I'm very pleased with it.

I set mine to scan @ 4800 dpi to tiff files & put 2 strips of color negatives in the holder. For the 8 scans it takes about 15 minutes. 4800 dpi is huge, but I'd rather scan huge and downsize later in PS if I want/need to. I first scan to a preview, which takes about 1 minute, then I can select any or all of the 8 pictures to go ahead and scan to tiff files.

The scanner does recognize the individual photos, no cropping necessary. And you can open the scanned files in PS or PSE as necessary after scanning.