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Looking for a photo scanner
Iphigenia
04-05-2011
I'd like to get one of these deelies for converting old prints and negatives into digital format.
I've just started looking.
I see the little sit up and beg type ones, and I see the flatbed scanner ones.
Does anyone know how they compare, what the comparitive merits and demerits?
Ta.
home_alone
04-05-2011
The photo scanners I have seen are limited to the size of photo they can scan - but are compact.

Flat bed scanners are more versatile wrt to the size of photo they can scan, but take up a lot more space.

Personally I would go for a flat bed, just for the versatility, which can include scanning documents to pdf & using OCR, which may be of benefit after the initial scanning project is finished?
killjoy
06-05-2011
The trouble is flat beds are no good for slides.
home_alone
07-05-2011
Originally Posted by killjoy:
“The trouble is flat beds are no good for slides. ”

My flat bed came with a 'light box' attachment that you load slides in, then put on the platen to be scanned.
JulesandSand
07-05-2011
I've a Canon Pixma MP640 printer/scanner/copier and find it very good for digitising photo prints.

It has an a piece of kit for slides (I don't have slides so can't comment on it's performance)

My father in law has a 10 year old Epson scanner that he bought specifically for doing slides so I'd be surprised if newer half decent scanners didn't offer the feature.
mincepie
17-05-2011
The flatbed ones will be very slow with slides/negatives. But obviously they can do prints.
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