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Hi, I'm new to Lightroom and this forum, but I thought I'd try this question here. I hope it's appropriate.
I've been shooting since the mid-196's and have shot mostly 35mm for all that time. I'm trying to digitize everything and then use Lightroom to see what I really have and sort and select and then display it--but that's getting into my other question.
As you can see in my sig, I didn't scrimp on a scanner for the bulk of my work, but I have about 7' 3.5x5 old Kodak "Picture Postcard" negatives that my Dad shot in the 195's as that format was becoming obsolete. I want to scan these and they're too broad for my Epson Perfection 166' Photo.
I also have a few 4x5 and 5x7 negs and transparencies I shot before I decided I didn't like large format, but I do want to scan this material. If anything becomes critical, I could have it re-scanned when it is needed.
For reference, I'm not doing full-quality scans of the slides or negatives. Since the negatives are mostly family snapshots, I'm scanning those at about 6 MP (17 MB TIF files) and I'm scanning the slides at about 12 MP (33 MB TIF files). My son (who thought of doing this with the family photo negatives) scanned about 25'' negatives this summer, and I've interleaved with him and scanned about 1',''' slides.
My plan is to go back and scan the top 1''-5'' 35 mm images as 133 MB files, but I don't think I have anything in the larger formats (except perhaps one or two B&W images) that would warrant this.
So, here are the options I'm considering:
(a) An HP Scanjet G4'5'
(b) Using my Nikon D2'' with a 6'mm F/2.8 Micro-Nikkor
and my Chroma5' fluorescent light table
(b) is a royal headache, and I would hope that I'd get as good or better results with (a) for <$2'' investment.
Thanks for any or all suggestions. I know one answer is the Epson V-7'' or V-75', but that is too big an investment for the use. I plan on using the HP 559' with document feeder for the approx 5'' images we have only in print form (mostly from others) that we wish to archive with our family images.
Cheers,
Richard
I've been shooting since the mid-196's and have shot mostly 35mm for all that time. I'm trying to digitize everything and then use Lightroom to see what I really have and sort and select and then display it--but that's getting into my other question.
As you can see in my sig, I didn't scrimp on a scanner for the bulk of my work, but I have about 7' 3.5x5 old Kodak "Picture Postcard" negatives that my Dad shot in the 195's as that format was becoming obsolete. I want to scan these and they're too broad for my Epson Perfection 166' Photo.
I also have a few 4x5 and 5x7 negs and transparencies I shot before I decided I didn't like large format, but I do want to scan this material. If anything becomes critical, I could have it re-scanned when it is needed.
For reference, I'm not doing full-quality scans of the slides or negatives. Since the negatives are mostly family snapshots, I'm scanning those at about 6 MP (17 MB TIF files) and I'm scanning the slides at about 12 MP (33 MB TIF files). My son (who thought of doing this with the family photo negatives) scanned about 25'' negatives this summer, and I've interleaved with him and scanned about 1',''' slides.
My plan is to go back and scan the top 1''-5'' 35 mm images as 133 MB files, but I don't think I have anything in the larger formats (except perhaps one or two B&W images) that would warrant this.
So, here are the options I'm considering:
(a) An HP Scanjet G4'5'
(b) Using my Nikon D2'' with a 6'mm F/2.8 Micro-Nikkor
and my Chroma5' fluorescent light table
(b) is a royal headache, and I would hope that I'd get as good or better results with (a) for <$2'' investment.
Thanks for any or all suggestions. I know one answer is the Epson V-7'' or V-75', but that is too big an investment for the use. I plan on using the HP 559' with document feeder for the approx 5'' images we have only in print form (mostly from others) that we wish to archive with our family images.
Cheers,
Richard
