Re: [APML]: Digitizing Slides. Help!

[joneil@obs.empath.on.ca (Joseph O'Neil)]

Steve Bell <sb635@delphi.com> writes:
> I use the Microtek ScanMaker 35t which costs about $700.  I think it does a g
> relatively inexpensive it is.  It comes with Twain compliant software (I use 
> one to adjust the brightness and contrast, and I can usually find settings th
> negatives, but Chuck is right - these slide scanners don't like dark negative
> making prints, though.

  Even on tech pan, would they not do better than a flatbed?  I have a HP 
ScanJet 3p, which is just 256 grey scale, no colour scanning.  It cost me 
the same price that a lot of "no-name" colour flatbeds go for around 
here.
($600.oo CDN)

    What I find though is you still lose a lot - especially in shadow 
detail.  Would you not avoid that problem scanning right from the neg?

  joe