Scanning - Software Tips and Help

Flatbed scanners are very cheap nowadays and great for scanning documents and photos of all types. However if you've ever tried to scan slides (transparencies) or negatives you were probably very disappointed with the results.Flatbed scanners work by reflecting light off printed stuff - much like a photocopier/xerox. However to scan slides you need a scanner that can shine light through the slide. This is the same reason you have to hold slides up to the light to view them by hand.There are a few ways around this - and this page was originally written a few years back to talk about the SlideScan device we bought. This is a mirror box which reflects the scanner's light up/over and through the slide making it scan with an ordinary scanner.
(13 Jan 05)This device is no longer easy to find - but apparently can be bought from:
http://www.datamind.co.uk/
It is a bit limited in use though so you may be better off buying a scanner with a built in slide/transparency adaptor.
SlideScan
SlideScan is a scanning adaptor which allows flatbed scanners to cope with slides and negatives. This page details some of my early experiences with it. There used to be some more info on the web about it - but it seems to have gone.
Slidescan copes well with 35mm slides. Depending on the scanner, it also copes with 6x4.5cm and 6x6cm slides. All my tests have been with a cheap OpicPro 4830P flatbed scanner and this can't quite seem to do 6x6cm slides, but it gets close.
The following details are the attempt so far - read on at http://www.rolandandcaroline.co.uk/slidescan.html


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