slide scanners (again)

[James Knott]

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 06:31:32PM -0400, Stewart C.Russell wrote:
>>What size of trannies do you need to scan? Epson are the only
>>manufacturer making flatbeds that can double as tranny scanners worth a
>>dern. They're still a lot softer and less contrasty than a real slide
>>scanner, though.
> 
> Fortunately just 35mm slides. The scans need to be good enough to use in
> "PowerPoint" presentations, and possibly reproduced in print. Although the
> immediate need is digital presentations. Do you think a dual-purpose
> scanner will be good enough? The other option was to get a digital camera
> with a slide adapter instead of a slide scanner...but this starts becoming
> more of a photography question than a Linux question. ;)

If you have yet to take the picture, you might as well use a digital
camera and forget about scanning.  If you want to use existing slides,
then a scanner is what you need.  Also, if this is a one time deal, you
might try having the scanning done at one of the camera stores.  They're
all set up for transfering slides and negatives to digital formats.

>  
>>This is one of the few occasions I'd strongly recommend using commercial
>>software. SANE's controls are very poor. Ed Hamrick's software is pretty
>>cheap, yet supports more scanners under Linux than you could think
>>possible: <http://hamrick.com/>
> 
> Ahh! Thanks for the recommendation.
> 
> We'll check out Henry's. I don't think I realized they had scanners. I
> thought they were more cameras than anything else.

When I bought my Epson scanner last year, it was availabe at Henry's,
but much cheaper at Future Shop.


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