Film Scanner for 35mm

[Mike Savage]

Hi
Hope I am posting this in the right area.
I am looking for a film scanner to get through scanning all my old 35mm negatives (probably 300 rolls ish).

There seems to be a bit of a range of options especially in terms of price and wondered if anyone could recommend something.

I definitely want it to be automated in terms of load a strip of negatives and then it scans each shot in turn automatically without having to manually align each one. Reasonable resolution (say printing up to 12x8) but nothing too huge needed.

Many thanks for any advice
Mike

 

[MatBin]

Epson v700 works ok for me.

 

[joxby]

This looks like one of them there moon on a stick scanner threads.
Probably be better move to the Film section with the other recommend me a scanner threads...

Are the negs on a roll or cut, if cut how many frames are they cut in to, there isn't any way to automate feeding and aligning of a strip of negs.
If they are on a roll, Pakon have made a decent scanner that will scan an entire roll with minimal intervention.
12 x 8 ?, is that inches or cm, you'll need a decent quality scan for inches, which takes longer, what quality is acceptable ?
300 rolls is a lot.......no wait.......lot doesn't really cover it, 300 rolls is like a 5 year stretch at HMP, there is nothing at all simple, quick or easy about scanning 300 rolls of cut film, its a major undertaking, you can't just bob em in in a weekend...sorry...

 

[Tringa]

I can understand if you don't want to entrust you 35mm films to a third party. I'm guessing a machine that produces good quality scans roll of film is fairly specialised and might not be much use at any other scanning so would having the scanning done professionally be an option?

Dave

 

[shapeshifter]

Use an Epson v700 or v750 and buy an extra set of film holders so you have two sets. Then you can load one set of holders (24 each holder) whilst the other is scanning.That is the problem with scanning the time it takes.