Slide scanner recommendation/advice please?
Posted: April 5th, 2024, 5:00 pm
No doubt like many others, I have "inherited" several boxes fulls of old (1960s etc) family slides and transparencies that I’d like to scan (because we’d like to preserve them, share them, and we don’t have a projector any more, and we’d prefer to share and display them on e.g. google photos anyway)
Does anyone have an advice where to start researching, or any tips on what to look for, or any recommendations.
The important slides are those in square cardboard frames for a projector and most are loaded into carousels (I know I'll have to take them out, but that’s easy, and at least in the carousels, they’re organised)
There are also loads of strips of transparencies which I might think about later, but that’s so important as we have physical prints of those.
I’d perhaps like a model that has a power-supply (some seem to run on batteries) and perhaps link to a computer (some seem to transfer photos using a memory card).
I’m aware that some models are consumer-priced, and then there are professional models which are priced accordingly. I think I’d be happy with a second hand model, as once the job is done, it’s done, and I don’t foresee the need to keep the scanner, so happy to buy a second hand model and then sell it on, rather than have it clutter the place up.
I’ve come across the Reflecta x33 scanner, and the DIGITNOW!High Resolution 135 Film/Slide Scanner, but only in a very uneducated Googling way.
Any thoughts, comments and ideas welcome. Many thanks
Does anyone have an advice where to start researching, or any tips on what to look for, or any recommendations.
The important slides are those in square cardboard frames for a projector and most are loaded into carousels (I know I'll have to take them out, but that’s easy, and at least in the carousels, they’re organised)
There are also loads of strips of transparencies which I might think about later, but that’s so important as we have physical prints of those.
I’d perhaps like a model that has a power-supply (some seem to run on batteries) and perhaps link to a computer (some seem to transfer photos using a memory card).
I’m aware that some models are consumer-priced, and then there are professional models which are priced accordingly. I think I’d be happy with a second hand model, as once the job is done, it’s done, and I don’t foresee the need to keep the scanner, so happy to buy a second hand model and then sell it on, rather than have it clutter the place up.
I’ve come across the Reflecta x33 scanner, and the DIGITNOW!High Resolution 135 Film/Slide Scanner, but only in a very uneducated Googling way.
Any thoughts, comments and ideas welcome. Many thanks