Only slightly OT

[gwpriester]

I just bought a slide and 35MM film scanner from Costco for $100.00 US after the instant $40 rebate.

I know that there are a few of us that probably have boxes and boxes of 35MM slides around the house and this is a good way to get them off the film and into the computer.

The maximum resolution is 1800dpi which fills my screen.

The only drawback is the color depth which is 16bit. 24 bit would be better. But considering these things used to sell for $600-1200 and up, the price was hard to beat.

Gary

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[gwpriester]

I just bought a slide and 35MM film scanner from Costco for $100.00 US after the instant $40 rebate.

I know that there are a few of us that probably have boxes and boxes of 35MM slides around the house and this is a good way to get them off the film and into the computer.

The maximum resolution is 1800dpi which fills my screen.

The only drawback is the color depth which is 16bit. 24 bit would be better. But considering these things used to sell for $600-1200 and up, the price was hard to beat.

Gary

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[Oystein]

Lucky you! Slides are nice - have about hundred of those boxes!

They say

- 36 bits per pixel color mode
- Optical resolution: 1800 dpi
(or 4.2 million pixels for a 35mm x 24mm image).

Is it good - give us an excample. I can use my HP flatbed scanner - but haven´t tried it much yet.

I have also bought a nice gadget yet - a Nikon D100 - which is a really nice thing.

Remember that XaraX is a great tool for bitmaps and photos".

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[tad]

Hi,
Publishing Perfection is currently selling Minolta slide/neg scanners at very good deals.

I've used a Minolta Dimage for years. Good machine. Now less than half what I paid.

Rgds,
tad

[Wayne D]

Went to Costco website. Duh!

Found "film" scanner for $269.00

Gary - Could you be more specific?

Brand & Model?

Thanks,

Wayne D

[dalel]

Please do post some images that you scan from your slides, at least 800pix by 500pix so that we can see the resolution and reproduction quality.

So how much is the Minolta scanner?

I've heard that the Nikon Coolscan produces the best quality for the money, but "the money" is too darn much for me, about $1500 last time I checked.

Slide and negative scanners have dropped in price considerably, but not enough to make them affordable during shaky economic times.

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[AndFarr]

Here is the link to the scanner mentioned above:

http://www.costco.com/frameset.asp?t...=10016148&log=

Hope that helps

[gwpriester]

Thanks AndFarr

It might have been an e-mail promotion.

The scanner is quite good, but slow, which is what I would expect for a low end film scanner.

The image quality is very sharp and the color is good at 16-bit but not as great as 24-bit or higher.

The attached is a section of a slide of one of my wife's painted objects. The actual image is 10" x 15" at 300dpi.

I'm a happy guy with it.

Gary

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[michaelward]

Talking of photos, I bought an HP Photosmart 850 camera (4Mpx, 8x Zoom, 30-300mm) just after christmas, and I've got some wonderful images from it.

If anyone would like to see them, then I've got some example are particularly proud of at: Leythers.co.uk Photos



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[gwpriester]

It appears the 8-bit and 16-bit options are per channel, hence 24-bit (8 x 3) and 48-bit (16 x 3).

So at 16 bits per channel, you should be able to get a tremendous amount of color. The computer can still only hands 24-bit color but theoretically the 48-bit color is resampled down to the best 16.7 million colors, give or take a few.

Gary

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