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Quoting Simon Robert <simon.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi > > for a very long time I've been wanting to transfer 100's of slides my > father took in the 60's onto a PC. I looked at an HP scanner which > claimed to do this, but turned out to be a cruddy slide holder which one > scanned on a flatbed scanner. > > I noticed places, like The Guardian tech pages, advertising special > gizmos for doing this. Of course these said PC or Mac only. Then the > other day I came across a similar gizmo that transferred the slide > either to an SD card or to its' own memory. > > I bought this, at worst I can transfer from an SD card. However it turns > out that the gizmos internal memory is a standard USB mass storage > device and is thus completely compatable with linux. > > I now wonder if this is the case with all of these devices? Does anyone > know? Although the one I bought costs around the same as the other > similar devices it is only available in the US (delivered in 4 days!) > and thus needs a transformer (which I already owned luckily). > > The device I bought is an Imagelabs Instant Slide Copier. Ordered from > ThinkGeek (who have a fab catalogue of mostly useless gadgets - like a > doormat with "There's No Place Like 127.0.0.1" and a t-shirt that lights > up when within range of an unsecured wifi hub, at rather high prices). > > Anyone have any experience with these devices? > > Simon > That's good. Not experienced that particular model myself, last one I played with was a Nikon one which had a SCSI interface (this is going back 7 years). I like the idea of that door mat, might get one for myself* :-) (* unless anyone knows where I can get one saying "Oh no! Not you again!") Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html