Question from a digital Neanderthal

[kennethcooke]

I guess it is about time I looked at getting some sort of preproduction facility. I recently experimented with a Nikon PB5 bellow and PS5 Slide copier but to be perfectly honest it was not ideal. I have a large quantity of Kodachrome ii slide in magazines which it would be good to try and produce B&W copy negs. I have tried to use my enlarger as a copy facility producing paper negs but the Kodachromes tend to pop. I know Leica do a slide copying facility Leica ref. 16511 Copy Stand but I am not sure that it would be any better than the Nikon set up.

So folks could it be a digital scanner. The only ones I have tried were bitterly disappointing but you, members of this group, and other groups seem to produce some pleasing results so I throw myself at your mercy. What do you recommend? I should say that a friend did offer me free of charge his old Nikon Coolscan but we could not get it to perform with Apple Mac

 

[rog]

a scanner

a scanner

I think you will be good with an Epson scanner, like the V600, it is about 200 euro's and i am (very) pleased with it.
If you would like more control and even better results invest in vuescan or something similar. The scanner is onething, the software the next.

good luck

 

[venchka]

Epson. For service if needed. For support with drivers. For plenty good enough for mortals scanning.
As good as the Nikon Coolscans are, when they work, Nikon has never ever provided the support that they should have. Did you try Vuescan software with the Coolscan? I think they offer a free trial period. Maybe that would work.

ps: I know folks go on and on about 3rd party scanner software. I use EpsonScan from the internet and it does everything I need. In fact, my scanner originally shipped with Windows 2000. Epson provides current drivers for the latest stuff from Microsoft & Apple for my scanner. That is good service after the sale.

 

[kennethcooke]

Thank you that all sounds simple enough and certainly I have no desire to get deeply involved. It would be just good to be able to send people like yourselves an image rather than trying to explain it in words. After all photography is a visual art

 

[Roger Hicks]

UG! No speak Sapiens!

I use a Konica Minolta 5400-II, and scan only when I need to. I'm not sure what I'll do when it dies.

Cheers,

R.