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On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 19:28 +0000, Julian Hall wrote: > Simon Robert wrote: > > 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 > > > I have an Epson Perfection V200. It takes up or 4 slides at once or a > film strip of six negatives. Quality of scans is pretty good at default > levels and it automatically numbers them by whatever prefix you set for > each batch, e.g. if you have some from 'Spain1980' it would number them > 'Spain1980001', 'Spain1980002' until you gave it a new prefix. > > Basically you can crack through a lot of negatives or slides in a > relatively short space of time. My previous scanner was an Epson > GT-7000 which had a separate lid for scanning negatives or slides. A > bit more versatile tbh as it took up to 1/4 plate glass negatives, but > only one at a time. > > Of the type you mention I can only see the Summit Photofix Film Scanner > available in the UK. Googling the Imagelabs one came up empty. > > Kind regards, > > Julian > I think I got a list of these devices by going to the ad on the Guardian technology page and doing the "find similar" thing. I bought the image labs one because I was certain it would work with linux, it arrived in 3 days and the postage wsasn't excessive. Simon -- 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