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Hi all

Hope you're all well :)

I've missed this place and the members!

Right, I don't have a magnificent budget, our first baby arrived 4 weeks ago :) (Cayden, he's amazing!). What do you guys suggest?

Are minolta scan dual ii's pants? Are the iii and IV much improved?

A plustek 7400?

Canoscan fs4000?

I use a mac g5 with leopard for my editing, and vuescan, so whatever I get will obviously need to be compatible!

Looking forward to spending more time on here again now!

All the best film fans!!

Dan
 
Hi and welcome back,

Try taking a look at the Reflecta range, the Proscan 7200 is a fantastic bit of kit for the money although the price of them new has shot up massively since I got mine a couple of years ago (I was by a stroke of luck able to get one brand new for only £220!). It scans fast, resolves ~3250 dpi on the top setting (3600 dpi) which is great compared to most scanners and when combined with the multi-exposure option in Vuescan is really able to get into the deep shadows when scanning transparencies. The Digital ICE is also very effective and really useful.

The older Reflecta Proscan 3600 is also supposed to be very similar in performance, but it doesn't turn up 2nd hand very often.

Sam
 
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Where are you, Danny? I have a IV which I don't use and you'd be welcome to have it on long term loan if you can collect it. I'm in Exeter and currently without driving privileges (medical not punitive!) so can't deliver easily, although I hope the situation will be resolved soon. If it's not an urgent need, I hope to be driving up to the Extravaganza at Whipsnade in May so should be able to bring it to that.
 
Hi Sam, I've heard good things about the reflecta proscans but they never seem to appear online 2nd hand :(
 
Hi Nod, I live in Hertfordshire so a little too far I think but that's a very kind offer thank you! If you would consider selling then hit up my thread in the wanted section.
 
Mahoneyd187 said:
Hi Sam, I've heard good things about the reflecta proscans but they never seem to appear online 2nd hand :(
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I don't know what your upper limit is, but you can still get them new for about £310 (including postage + taxes) if you import from Germany (see http://www.scandig.com/filmscanner/reflecta/reflecta-proscan-7200.html) - I was originally going to buy one from there, but one came up brand new on Amazon for only £220 so I jumped at it (I think they had made a mistake in which model they had priced it for as the lower end Crystalscan 7200 [a good buy as well apparently] typically sold for about that then!). I know that Nick (I think his username is 'Sectionate') got one from there and seemed very happy with it.

I still can't believe how much they have gone up in price though as when I brought mine they were typically sold on Amazon for about £300 (and ~£270 from Germany), but now their listed on Amazon for ~£350!

Sam
 
I have an Epson v4490 scanner which works well with my G5
 
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s162216 said:
I don't know what your upper limit is, but you can still get them new for about £310 (including postage + taxes) if you import from Germany (see http://www.scandig.com/filmscanner/reflecta/reflecta-proscan-7200.html) - I was originally going to buy one from there, but one came up brand new on Amazon for only £220 so I jumped at it (I think they had made a mistake in which model they had priced it for as the lower end Crystalscan 7200 [a good buy as well apparently] typically sold for about that then!). I know that Nick (I think his username is 'Sectionate') got one from there and seemed very happy with it.

I still can't believe how much they have gone up in price though as when I brought mine they were typically sold on Amazon for about £300 (and ~£270 from Germany), but now their listed on Amazon for ~£350!

Sam
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Thanks for the info but it'd need to be second hand,that's too much for me right now!
 
Mahoneyd187 said:
Are minolta scan dual ii's pants? Are the iii and IV much improved?
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I have a Minolta Scan Dual II which I am quite happy with. I paid £35 for it secondhand. I mainly scan home developed B&W, so the lack of dust correction (ICE ?) is not a problem for me. When I do get colour processed by a supermarket, then it does take a long time to remove the little orange dots with Gimp. In summary it does about 2900 dpi fairly quickly, it needs Vuescan and is good if your negatives are clean when they go in the carrier.
 
NickT said:
I have a Minolta Scan Dual II which I am quite happy with. I paid £35 for it secondhand. I mainly scan home developed B&W, so the lack of dust correction (ICE ?) is not a problem for me. When I do get colour processed by a supermarket, then it does take a long time to remove the little orange dots with Gimp. In summary it does about 2900 dpi fairly quickly, it needs Vuescan and is good if your negatives are clean when they go in the carrier.
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Wow that's cheap! Was that an eBay job?
 
This thread has piqued my interest in 35mm scanning since im doing more of it these days. Im using an epson v750 at the moment which is all well and good but it will only go to 2400dpi. Browsing around ebay i can see some 35mm scanners which tests show go close to 4000dpi The Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 and Nikon Coolscan V being 2. Im keeping an eye on some auctions due to end later in the week to see if there is a potential bargain there.
 
I never liked my v500 for 35mm,6x7 was great but everything smaller format looked soft,dedicated is the way to go for 35mm for sure
 
Mahoneyd187 said:
Hi Nod, I live in Hertfordshire so a little too far I think but that's a very kind offer thank you! If you would consider selling then hit up my thread in the wanted section.
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Maybe a little to far but, like I said, I'll be up that way in May, so if you're still in need then, let me know and I'll bring it up. I'll have a dig around to find the driver disk and box etc and look into postage costs, although I'm a bit reluctant to entrust delicate equipment to a carrier!
 
I have a Konica Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV that cost just under £100 on ebay and I'm very happy with it. There is a noticeable improvement using it compared to scanning 35mm negs on my flat bed scanner. I wouldn't go back to using the flat bed for 35mm negs, although I'm perfectly happy using it for mf or larger.

I think that there is a driver available on the net that allows you to use a normal twain driver but it works fine with Vuescan. It doesn't have an infrared scan so you can't use ICE but that has never caused me a problem as most of my shots are B&W anyway.
 
I have one of the older Nikon Coolscans - it's lovely and sharp.
 
wickerman said:
I have a Konica Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV that cost just under £100 on ebay and I'm very happy with it. There is a noticeable improvement using it compared to scanning 35mm negs on my flat bed scanner. I wouldn't go back to using the flat bed for 35mm negs, although I'm perfectly happy using it for mf or larger.
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I'd agree with this wholeheartedly. I used to use a Canoscan 9500f for scanning shots from my RB. Silverfast was better than the Canoscan software, but the 2 significant issues were (1) The fact that you're scanning through glass (2) The scanning head is constantly moving = vibrating. Dedicated film scanners remove both of these issues. The Pakon sounds pretty good on paper, as it should produce a scan good enough for a 10" wide print @ 300dpi. There are things to consider when choosing a scanner, such as the quality of the sensor (CCD/CMOS). If you plan to scan slides, watch out for the Dmax figure as this references how much of the darker tones within the frame can be reproduced by the scanner.

As with all digital files, clipping is your biggest enemy.
 
cariadus said:
Many people rave about the Pakon scanners. Hard to get in the UK though. They're about £200 including shipping:
http://www.aaaimaging.com/kodak-pakon-f135-film-scanner.html
You might have duty and VAT on top of that, though.
Also, they only work on PCs with Windows XP, which might well be a limiting factor.
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No problem if you have a modern computer and OK with DIY inside the computer.....just add another old hard drive with Winxp and on bootup select the drive you want to boot to............you could also partition your existing hard drive with different operating systems starting with a new drive, as if you have win7 you can't then put winxp on another partition.......IIRC you can do it the other way round i.e. winxp first.
 
excalibur2 said:
as if you have win7 you can't then put winxp on another partition
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That's not true, I've had Win XP and 7 on the same partition before. Win 7 installed first then XP works fine.
 
The newer windows loader can cope better, though sticking them on their own partition would probably stop XP from causing havock with W7.
 
robhooley167 said:
That's not true, I've had Win XP and 7 on the same partition before. Win 7 installed first then XP works fine.
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H'mm don't you mean you had one hard disk but divided that hard disk into two partitions, one with xP other with Win 7...so when you bring up win explorer (say in win7) it shows you have two hard drives i.e. C and D.....?.
 
No you can tell Win7 to install on the same partition as XP (not the otherway round) but I wouldn't trust XP not to cause trouble as it is not designed to run in a multi-boot envrionment.
 
I have a Minolta dual scan ll and it works very well on windows 7 with Vuescan software, though like all minolta scanners, the software that came with it has no current drivers. I prefer to spend a little time ensuring the negs are clean so the lack of "ice" which is very slow anyway, is no problem to me.
 
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