Slide Scanner

[jus]

Hi,

I'm a bit of a photographer and I would like to be able to make digital scans of my negatives. I use Fuji slides and Kodak T-Max and Tri-X B/W negatives, So there should be no problem with additional software for colour scheme matching with colour negatives. Apart of that has anyone ever tried or used a slide scanner with an amiga? Are there any drivers for that kind of hardware? Any recommendations? I already have an Epson GT-9000 flatbed scanner that I use for scanning my prints, but of course nothing even comes close to the original negative. Maybe the cheapest - and most compatible - solution would be using a slide adaptor for that scanner. But what about the quality? Any comments on that?

Thanks for any advice,
Justin

[voxel]

Hi :-)

Nothing is better than a real slide scanner.

The transparency adaptors for flatbed ones are just too shorts for anything else than slide proofing. Too short on resolution, too short on lighting.

But I don't remember of an Amiga driver for slide scanner yet :-( perhaps ImageFX can make use of  :-?

The only thing I recall was a slide maker extension for ADPro who used to create slides with some Kodak slide printers...

BTW, as Wolf Faust is making slide targets for his excellent ICS package perhaps he have more precisions to make, are you there Wolf? :-D

Is anyone slide scanning here?

Amigalement, Jean-François, Amiga ONLY since 1985.

[jus]

So maybe the solution is using a slide scanner on my PC and copying the files to my amiga via my network? Pity as I hate Photoshop, it's so slow on my 500MHz PentIII.
So I guess my scanner's resolution is 2400dpi. Is it really not good enough? I mean I'm not going to use the scans for anything professional. Just to put them on the net or catalog them. I have my own dark room for B/W and if I want good prints from my slides I go to a Fuji lab. Trouble is that I of course don't enlarge all my negatives and that leaves me with alot of pictures I've never seen real size. Being able to scan them would then tell me if I made the wrong decision not to enlarge a nevative.

Justin
PS Jean-François, comment va-t-il avec le PAR?

[Cass]

So maybe the solution is using a slide scanner on my PC and copying the files to my amiga via my network?

Yes, this can be done... I have a Canon (CanoScan D660U) Scanner, which is able to scan negatives/slides. The only downside is that is connected to the PC (USB ports, no Amiga drivers yet :-( ). It`s the only way to have the scanned photos on the Amiga side (a scsi scanner costs much, and doesn`t have the same features as this cheap model).

-EDIT-

So I guess my scanner's resolution is 2400dpi. Is it really not good enough?

Mine is 1200dpi without interpolation. It`s enough to have a 35mm film scanned as a normal photo size paper.
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