I have used my Epson 47 something or other. I have the Doug Fisher holder
with the ANR glass, to which the film is taped. OK results.
Bill Pearce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Culberson" <waynecul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 9:58 AM
Subject: [OM] scanner advice
>
> Okay, I admit that I don't follow these scanner threads until I need help.
> Here is my situation. I've been going through my father and mother's old
> pictures (dad recently passed away so both are gone now). Yesterday, I
> brought home some old Kodachrome slides, some B&W pics shot on probably a
> Brownie Hawkeye and some other smaller format, and some B&W studio photos,
> and some tin type pics. Some of the studio photos go back 100 years or
> more
> I think, as there are pictures of several generations back that came from
> my
> grandparents home as well. My brothers and sister would like copies of
> some
> of these old family photos. Some of theme will need some PS help, some the
> photo stores likely won't duplicate as they are from studios (long since
> closed and gone), and some are slides that I want to make prints from.
> Most
> of the color photos are faded beyond fixing in my opinion, but there might
> be a few I'd like to copy.
>
> So, is there a reasonably priced flat bed scanner that would handle both
> prints and 35mm slides that someone could recommend. I had an old 5100A HP
> Photo Smart that is now inoperable because of the connection and card
> incompatibility. Anyways, the photo scanning (5x7 max) mode of it didn't
> work at all, so I'm not interested in trying to resurrect it.
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne
>
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