I bought a Nikon Coolscan IV in 2000, and been using it ever since. It was a premium price at the time, but can be found for a fraction of the price today on eBay. Last year, I found a Pacific Image film/slide scanner locally for $20.00 and it worked just fine, hardly a difference between it and the Nikon. I have an Epson 750 that I use for 4x5 negs and transparencies, and a Nikon 8000 for medium format. I have compared the results from the Epson against the Nikon and at first glance, they seem comparable, but on closer scrutiny, there's no comparison. I guess what I'm saying is, if you just want a quick digitization of your slides, go with the Epson, It will batch a dozen at a time if memory serves. I also highly recommend Hamrick VueScan software, it's as good as, if not better than, SilverFast, way cheaper, and can be used for all your scanners, and shared with one other user, too.
Best of luck
Lightning. It was struck by lightning. Being struck by lightening infers the sun was coming up.
Have you tried following your advice? I haven't, but I have followed all the instructions you delineated above. I suggest that, before you give advice on how to deal with MPB, you follow your steps as outlined.
It doesn't work, the phone calls or the emails. When I have the time I'll find them in old correspondences with them and publish them here.
Meantime, let us all know how it works out with you, and following the steps you suggested.
WayneL wrote:
I just bought a camera from them that had more scratches than it should have for the condition it was listed as. Sent them an email about it and no reply after 5 days, not good service
Same here, bought a lens that apparently couldn't focus. I called, e-mailed, no reply. Gave up, sent it in for service, and will never buy from them again. They're very good about selling stuff, but apparently don't like to have what they sold, come back.
Kodak does indeed make film, just not for those cameras.
One of the best I've ever seen here. Kudos!
I bought a Nkon coolscan IV years ago (22 or so) and it's still going strong, just used it a week ago. It will scan mounted slides one at a time, and film strips either four to the strip or in a carrier that will handle six to the strip.
It's a little slow, old USB, and I use the VueScan application, since there is no other OEM application that will work with newer OS's. You can probably pick one up inexpensively (cheap) on ebay from time to time. I'm kinda spoiled by this scanner, since I've scanned slides and negs on an Epson V750 and though the Epson flat bed does a good job, the Nikon is superior. I use the Epson to scan old family heirloom medium format color and B&W negs, and my large format negs and chromes.
What I find interesting is that the negs I scan on the Nikon are sharper than the occasional prints I have to compare them to.
Good luck, hope this helps, you've got one heck of a project ahead of you.
This site is saturated with sages. Yes Jerry, you're a genius.
Howdy, and thank you for your reply nonetheless.
Yes, everything worked out fine on the D810, but I discovered the only way I can shoot true continuous on the D7100 was to set it for fine (jpeg) only. Any other quality selection drastically reduces continuous frame rate.
You, my friend, are a genius. Thank you so much!
Howdy hogs, I'm wondering if there is an answer to my conundrum:
I have a Nikon D810 and a D7100, and it seems no matter how I set up either of them, I can only get three frames when holding down the shutter button.
If I let up and press again, same thing.
I've followed all the instructions I've been able to find and yet the problem persists.
CL mode is set to 6, max continuous release is set to 100.
Dial is set to Ch, though I get the same result when it's set to Cl.
CF card is Lexar 1066x, 160 MB/s.
Same result no matter the mode, RAW, jpeg fine or basic.
I'm at a loss, and not even Google seems able to help, ain't that weird?
mizzee wrote:
More and more I’m thinking I need to do more than just my external hard drive for backup. I’m leaning toward BackBlaze or Carbonite but I need to do more research on both. What I’m curious about is file structure preservation and LR catalogues. Do they preserve my file structure/folders and the LRcat that goes with them? What about ease of use? I’m not the most tech savvy of users. Thanks in advance!
Go with BackBlaze. Carbonite is just a dietary restriction.
I'm looking at a few boxes of type 52 in unopened, original, boxes, inside a cardboard shipping crate. Expiration date is 1978. No word on refrigeration. What do you think? $200.00 for 10 boxes of 20 films each, black and white, but, being a Polaroid creative consultant, I'm sure you know that. I have the 545 back and the 4x5 camera as well. I thank you and respect your opinion.
I'm trying to determine that.