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Living Room / Re: digitising slides
« Last post by Stoic Joker on June 07, 2013, 11:27 AM »My flatbed, (Canon D660U), is capable of slides/negatives, it has a CCFL built into the lid that you uncover when you put it into slide mode and it works reasonably well.
However, 2 points:
1) it's abominably slow, (about 2min per slide at a minimum of 600DPI), and
2) because the slide/neg sits in a holder this results in the actual surface of the slide/neg sitting above the glass bed by about 3mm. The scanner is naturally focused at things lying flat on the glass, ie. the focus is a bit off.
The results were always a bit "softer" than those taken with the flash scanner, they use a CMOS imaging device that is focused at the surface of the slide/negative.-4wd (June 05, 2013, 10:22 PM)
Which makes me wonder how one of those little desktop scanners would work for this. You know, the type that the doctors offices use to scan your drivers license and insurance cards. You would think it would be perfect for negatives, but I've never used one, soooooo.....-Tinman57 (June 06, 2013, 07:21 PM)
...Don't
Assuming you are referring the little upright auto feeding typically fujitsu scanners. they're feed mechanisms are quite energetic and could likely damage the slides as they are whipped through the machine. Not to mention they also run quite hot. I don't believe I've ever seen a slide scanning rig that didn't use the flatbed orientation for I suspect those exact reasons.
...I know I did at the time)