35mm slide scanner

[ronturner]

Looking for a recommendation for a slide scanner.


I have a very good Cannon Cannoscan which I have used for some time but it works only with an old version of windows.

Now my old laptop has given up the ghost so I want to have a new scanner which will work with my Windows 10 machine.

Before I look for another Cannoscan on Ebay or whatever, does anybody have an other recommendations? I want a scanner just for 35mm colour slides: nothing else. These are all individual slides of aeroplanes. Still wading through 1000's of them..

I have seen some inexpensive small machines dedicated to 35mm only, which seems to fit the bill, but they seem not to perform as well as the cannon in terms of colour, dust reduction and so on.

All advice welcome.

If you have one to sell, send me a PM


Thanks.

Ron

[Beemer]

Ron I know how you feel as I had to dump a brilliant Canoscan scanner as it didn't work with Windows 10. The best bit of kit I had for slides, negatives and general scanning and it had to go in the bin. Sick as a pig I was. Beemer.

[viscount]

I use a now ageing Canoscan 9000F and a Picasa programme on my PC for cleaning. Did have a Silverfast programme for infra-red cleaning, but never managed to make it work for me. The Canoscan is a bit of a pain to load (and empty) 4 at a time and a decent number of slides takes a long session.

However, I once purchased a one-at-time, push-me-pull-you device rather cheaply on the Aldi 'once-off' weekly offer counter. Seemed to take just as long to load and scan and the scan results were nothing like as good at Canoscan even set to the same dpi if the transparency colour density was anywhere too thin or dark (as most of mine are). After keeping on top of the wardrobe for a number of years I 'donated' it to Liverpool's recycling facility at Otterspool shortly before leaving the UK.

So while the Canoscan may be expensive, especially when replacing another perfectly good one, it does do an excellent job, and it scans documents/photo prints well too even if you don't have any negatives to scan. While there are a number of 'bargain' devices, the number of 'proper' scanners on the market that handle transparencies seems to have decreased, indeed as have the number of dedicated scanners (replaced by multi-purpose scanner/printers).

[radiostationx]

Nov 4, 2017 8:03:32 GMT 1 ronturner said:

I have a very good Cannon Cannoscan which I have used for some time but it works only with an old version of windows.

Now my old laptop has given up the ghost so I want to have a new scanner which will work with my Windows 10 machine.



Ron

Which model Cannonscan Ron ?, I take it the driver comes with "Canon Toolbox" editing stuff included ?



I will try to help you Ron with a workaround... if it is possible, Send me a PM




Mike

[Samba]

If i can make a suggestion, i have a large collection of slides and i've been down the Cannon route, it was ok but when i switched over to Epson the results where far superior.
At the moment i am running an Epson V800 and i'll leave a scan for you to judge if it's with it or not.
Bob O'Brien.G-ALHG by Bob O, on Flickr

[viscount]

Bob, Just how did you get that Argonaut shot so clean? Do you use a scratch and dust sensing programme, or a hair dryer and soft brush? The CD of yours that I've had for a couple of years and have recently worked on, needed some effort with Picasca to get anything towards the pristine cleanliness of that Argonaut. Indeed I'm sure most of my slides arrived from the processor with more dust and marks than that 50 year old transparency of yours has now!

[Samba]

Hi Brian, that was a large format slide but still needed a lot of TLC. I've been getting a lot of help from mike@radiostatiolnx in the ways of photoshop over the last few weeks, some of the results have been amazing. I think you'll find my scans are 100per cent better these days.
BobG-AMAG DAN AIR. Lpl 03/68. by Bob O, on Flickr

[Deleted]

That image is worthy of a Hasselblad, Bob!

[ronturner]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for your contribution.

Great pictures and your Epson sounds interesting. (G-AMAG is stunning)

Mike has offered some help to me so I am going to take him up on it.


Like your picture of G-ARGO too. This was the machine I took my first flying lesson in, with John Crediton as instructor. (1963)

Ron

[Samba]

Morning Ron, thanks for your feedback. I've been getting help from Mike and he is a great teacher, you will have no problems. I remember RGO, RKN and the Chippie OST. Jim Keen was good to us years ago and i repaid him by taking my PPL at Keenair all those years ago, i couldn't afford to keep it up though and my 500 plus hours are now a distant memory.

[acklington]

I use an "Epson Perfection 4490 PHOTO", a flatbed multipurpose scanner that will do slides, negatives, prints or documents. It takes four slides at a time, and it has survived moving to Windows 10. It is now getting on a bit, and has a fault which produces a horizontal line (like a scratch) through a scan, but I just move the slide or neg to one side to avoid the fault. Otherwise it produces very high quality scans, but the higher the quality the longer each scan takes (up to 4 minutes).

I don't trust the automatic scratch & dust remover, as how can it tell the difference between a rivet and a speck of dust? Also the automatic colour restoration rarely gets it right, but I do use the brightness adjustment a lot. So I use Corel Paintshop pro to clone away specks etc by hand, then I use Photoshop to work on the colours. So all told, a reasonably clean slide takes about 10 to 20 minutes to restore from scan to completion. A really bad slide or dirty/damaged negative can take 2 hours, but the subject is usually worth the effort!

[radiostationx]

Looking at both photos above Bob Samba was quite right when he said in the Cambrian reunion thread that there is a lot of history behind Liverpool Airport and LJLA should perhaps use this to the full and tap into it more.

Some historical photos like these wouldnt go a miss hanging up in the terminal, or on their twitter/facebook page perhaps.
Just a thought.

I for one find it so interesting looking at images like these and the plethora of historical movements and logs have been preserved for us to enjoy too.

Bob, I have found our online photoshop etc coaching sessions enjoyable and fun. Glad to help.

I will throw my tuppence in if I may,
The Dan Air AS 57 was scanned by Canoscan 9000f not the Epson.
It hasnt turned out too bad has it ? Which is kudos to the Canon me thinks as it was a circa 2012 machine.
Behind the capabilities of the V800 but still a very credible performer as seen with that awesome image of G-AMAG.
You certainly know your way around a camera and no mistake Bob, Great pics !

ps On the BM photo, that guy in the ground crew with his hand aloft looks very close to those props, he and his colleagues would probably have to complete 90 odd risk assessments to do the same thing today.

Sad that Canon have not updated drivers for some of their products.

Lets hope Rons Canoscan can be rescued.

Mike

[Samba]

I hope so too, i didn't realise the Dan Air scan was done so long ago, you are right the Cannon wasn't that bad after all.
Here's one for the archive MPP out side the terminal, bad condition but have tried to bring it to life with Ps.
Cheers
Bobimg241 by Bob O, on Flickr

[ronturner]

Another nice photo.

Its made me realise that when I get my scanner going, thanks to work being done by Mike, I need to spend more time making them really good. I take it you always remove the slide from the mount. This is what I have been doing.
Ron

[Samba]

Good Morning from a Wet and Miserable Hunts Cross. Always keep the slide in the mount as it stabilises the process when the scanner is operating. Keep going with Mike, he's a great teacher and will help you all the way.