Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I also use Vuescan. It is quite good and reasonably priced.
The other big one is Silverfast but it is quite a bit pricier and doesn't
support as many scanners as I recall. Silverfast has a fancier interface
and bells and whistles but supposedly isn't markedly better.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2012 - 04:14pm PT
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I am having too much fun with my scanner. Gotta show a few pics :)
SUMMIT ELATION !!!!!!
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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I tried scan cafe, the price was reasonable, but I didn't like the results. So, I decided to improvise and made a slide copier for my camera. My only expense was a set of extension tubes that I bought from Adorama for about $70. The rest were a few wood scraps. The extension tubes fit between the lens and the body of my DSLR. By moving the lens further from the sensor they can provide a very close focus.
The tubes work best with a lens that is slightly telephoto. A 20mm tube and my zoom at about 55mm worked well for my Nikon D300.Something bright and white behind the slide is needed. After a little tinkering to get it dialed in you can start changing the slides and take pictures. Shooting a raw images gives me enough data to work with the image in Lightroom to get the tones and colors right. I can get better details in the shadows than the Scan Cafe images have.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2012 - 06:24pm PT
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Yeah I'd like to have gone that way DE. It would definitely be quicker and I suspect get even better results.
I have been wanting to get a good DSLR but have not had enough extra scratch to justify it. Right now I have to settle for dreaming. I lust for a Canon 7D and some nice glass. About $1500 with just the first lens I'd like to have.
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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Here is a comparison.It was this slide which disappointed me with subbing out the scans and got me going on making a camera copier.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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I tried scan cafe, the price was reasonable, but I didn't like the results. My color negatives turned out the best, by far. My slides not as good. However, all I see are color issues, which are pretty fixable with software. 95+% of my photos were print film. Overall, I was pretty happy with the results. Out of 1000's of images, I'd say just a few dozen are worth additional attention, which I could certainly do.
Meanwhile, I even have those accidental shots of my feet - and I remember them - everything triggers a memory and I have it all - it would have taken me months, possibly years to scan all of those in on my own. I'm pretty happy with scancafe, for sure.
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Jim Brennan
Trad climber
Vancouver Canada
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That home made wooden rig is really cool Dick !
I wish I had the time... My sense of what happened in my mind and how it is represented by the original version makes the un - handled slide most resonant.
I like the modern digital brilliance but like CD's VS. Vinyl, a certain warmth lies in the balance. It was 25 years gone but this is what still holds true to the mind's eye:
This is a record of Ward free climbing on Pancake flake brought on with a slide scanned with a Canon 8800f scanner. A fairly cheap and dependable flatbed rig.
I have no interest in changing the image. It hasn't changed much due to keeping all my slides in the dark.
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weezy
climber
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climbski2,
sorry i didn't return your message. it got caught in the spam filter and i just now saw it. glad to see you got a nice scanner. probably was a ton easier to set up than the old minolta i have.
anyway, i still have the scanner if anyone else is interested. i'll sell it for cheap or trade for something.
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