Slide Scanning: I am looking for a Slide Scanning Source that is both affordable and a decent resolution. Might be an old subject, but the need has just arisen. Thank you. Just got...

Poison Ivey Loc: Mtn Brook, AL

I am looking for a Slide Scanning Source that is both affordable and a decent resolution. Might be an old subject, but the need has just arisen. Thank you.

Just got back from Costa Rica, a location of wonderful Photo Ops!

Cart Factory at Sarchi, Costa Rica

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

Go to the Epson.com website and look at their refurbished scanners. I use an Epson Perfection V500 PHOTO scanner for scanning slides, negatives and medium format. $150 new, $99 refurbed. MUCH better to do it yourself and maintain control over quality!

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

MT Shooter wrote:

Go to the Epson.com website and look at their refurbished scanners. I use an Epson Perfection V500 PHOTO scanner for scanning slides, negatives and medium format. $150 new, $99 refurbed. MUCH better to do it yourself and maintain control over quality!

We have two Nikon Coolscan 4000 Scanners here at work.
What do I use most?- an Epson V700. Probably the same high quality as the V500 MT uses- and sooo easy to use.
Love Epson!!!

tkhphotography Loc: Gresham, Or, not Seattle

MT Shooter wrote:

Go to the Epson.com website and look at their refurbished scanners. I use an Epson Perfection V500 PHOTO scanner for scanning slides, negatives and medium format. $150 new, $99 refurbed. MUCH better to do it yourself and maintain control over quality!

I used that one; it's a good easy to use machine....

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I have the Epson V600, and it does a great job scanning photos. I haven't scanned slides - yet.

George H Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Poison Ivey wrote:

I am looking for a Slide Scanning Source that is both affordable and a decent resolution. Might be an old subject, but the need has just arisen. Thank you.

Just got back from Costa Rica, a location of wonderful Photo Ops!

Ben,
I have a small Wolverine F2D unit that I use, I also have the Epson unit as well. The Wolverine is small and does a wonderful job of scanning the slides, if you have a lot of them go with the Epson since it does more of them at once.

George

Schwabo Loc: Florida

Can you use it for old pictures as well?

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

Yes you can, and new ones too! LOL

George H Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Schwabo wrote:

Can you use it for old pictures as well?

Schwabo,
Not sure if your question is directed at me but the Wolverine does not do photos, just slides and negatives. That is the major benefit to the Epson, it does all of them.

George

Schwabo Loc: Florida

Thank you all, that surely answered my question.

greymule Loc: Colorado

MT Shooter wrote:

Go to the Epson.com website and look at their refurbished scanners. I use an Epson Perfection V500 PHOTO scanner for scanning slides, negatives and medium format. $150 new, $99 refurbed. MUCH better to do it yourself and maintain control over quality!

I recently used an Epson V600, which I bought new. Worked pretty well, but produced very small files that are not suitable for printing larger than about 8x10. Was fine for my purpose, which was just to catalog my images.

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

greymule wrote:

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The V600 will scan at 9600 dpi, that will get you a 24" x 36" print from any 35mm slide or negative, I have done many of them. You need to change to professional mode in your Epson Scan software and manually select the settings to increase your resolution, it sounds like you are scanning at 1200 dpi to me.

greymule Loc: Colorado

MT Shooter wrote:

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Good call. Actually I was in Pro mode with 1200 dpi. I tried higher resolution, but the images were TINY. Any help as to what I was doing wrong (and how to do it correctly) will be appreciated!

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

Without actually walking through your selections with you there is little I can do here. My slide scans come out at over 300MB TIFF files, I do my corrections at this level before reducing and saving to a size I want to archive. My archived files are usually between 82MB and 95MB in size.
Try scanning a slide at 4800 and save as TIFF and see what you end up getting, warning, the scan will take 5 to 8 minutes to complete.

greymule Loc: Colorado

MT Shooter wrote:

Without actually walking through your selections with you there is little I can do here. My slide scans come out at over 300MB TIFF files, I do my corrections at this level before reducing and saving to a size I want to archive. My archived files are usually between 82MB and 95MB in size.
Try scanning a slide at 4800 and save as TIFF and see what you end up getting, warning, the scan will take 5 to 8 minutes to complete.

Wow. Megabytes galore. When I tried scanning at 9600, the image was bigger in megabytes, but small in size. When I would try to "fit to screen" in PS, the image was pixelated. Any suggestions?