Slides look like negatives when scanned: Anyone have any luck correcting either of these issues?
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It takes me about a minute per slide. While I am scanning one batch, I tweak the previous batch in another program so the project keeps moving along. I've had the CanoScan for 2 months now, have scanned about 100 slides without any problems. I am very happy with it. I have a little tutorial on my site that shows some of my results: http://www.patriciaweppler.com/tutorial.htm
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I have exactly the same problem with my Canon 4400F. Otherwise scans are good, but I bought it with the intention of scanning a lot of slides for which it is useless.
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I think you press the on button and then scroll through options. There is a single negative holder as opposed to the strip holder -- perhaps one slide at a time would fit into that, or could simply be slid into the slot from above, scanned like a negative, then pulled out. A typical slide is the same size as the negative holder. I have been working on negatives so far and have not yet tried slides myself, but that is what I will try when I get around to it. There is an instruction booklet that comes with the scanner, pretty basic but check it out again. Hope this helps a bit.
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Yes there is. In fact you can adjust the colors as well - reduce or increase the red and blue. Any changes are then shown in the little view screen, and will be applied to all slides scanned until reset or changed to different settings. It takes some trial and error but I have been able top scan hundreds of old slides and restore at least some of the color. I also use a graphic program like Photoshop elements to further adjust the colors in the scanned images.
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It might be tough to feed them into this scanner. I had a hard time feeding some of my really old pics. You might want to seek out a professional for your negatives. Good luck.
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Thanks a lot! Any other suggestions? All-in-one with medium format slide scanner?
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I believe they are strips of 35mm negatives. I don't know much about photography so I wasn't aware there were different size negatives. I didn't really use mine to scan negatives. I mostly scanned printed photos 4x6 or smaller and was very happy with that. I scanned some mounted slides and it is a slower process with mostly good results though darker slides seemed to become grainy.
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I'm not aware of any color problems while scanning. I can say I bought the scanner in 2010 and it still works perfectly.
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I've only scanned slides but I would guess photos will do well also. File format is JPEG. The file size would be limited by the space available on the micro-SD card. I'll try some photos and respond again. I am very happy with the scanner for slides, however.
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The scanning quality is excellent (max = 600dpi). I have not tried to scan in negatives, but the scanning that i did perform caught sufficient detail i would suspect it would be fine. As for slides, that is a different question, as they are in the cardboard; i don't know if that will mess with the focus (being off the glass). Scanning resolution: Max = 600dpi in Jpeg or Tiff. I will run a negative through the scanner hopefully tonight and will let you know for sure.
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Yes, "guruofvinyl" is correct. There is a setting in the software to scan negatives. It's quite effective.
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There are two caddies that come with the scanner. One does normal slides and 35 mm negatives. The other one has an opening that is 2 1/4 x 8 1/2. I think you could do the slides there. I have used it for older over-sized negatives with good results.
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Vaboo! Good topic.I've got a box of *everything* -- 110, 35mm and 126 negatives. The problem is the software doesn't really allow for this film format . . . I'm going to see if they have a SDK or something to hack that.Any suggestions for the 110s?Also, can someone suggest a good (cheap) negative viewer? That pana-vue #2 looks perfect except it's for slides.Thanks in advance!
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I've had no problems with poor quality scanned photos. The default is set to 300dpi, have you tried increasing it to 600dpi? That's what I always use and that works for me. I believe the max is 1200dpi. You may want to play around with that setting and see. Also don't be fooled by the scan preview, it's not an exact representation of what the scanned photo/doc will look. Hope that helps.
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I do not believe the scanner can process negatives. It does come with a special tray for slides.
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No, Kathleen, your slides won't be damaged in any way and this scanner does a good job. I was real satisfied with the negatives I scanned also and glad I ordered the negative carriers when I ordered the slide carriers.
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I've been mostly caught up by the phrase "all-in-one with slide/neg scanning", that is exactly what I was looking for the many years! Thanks for the link - but there is very expensive slide-scanner talk mostly.Thanks again!