Negative scanner?

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My dad has been looking at old pictures and decided he wants to digitalise them. Having a little look online it appears home negative scanners are a reality but I know nothing about them. OcUK has this one in stock: http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-000-VH is it any good? Budget is up to around £120 so plenty of room above that one if it isn't any good. Anyone have one of these? How do you find it? Any examples of old 35mm film scanned in that you care to share?

Thanks. :)
 
NOt really much info to go on in the specs is there. I don't have one, but there are some user reviews on Amazon.

as a summary the ratings are
5* 6
4* 4
3* 3
2* 2
1* 9

So it gets a mixed review. The higher stars are are from people just wanting a digital copy of the image, the others kind of say that it's acceptable but not good, and has problems with old faded negs. Though to be honest, if you want a top quality neg scanner you need to be spending loads more than this.
 
I can't help with the Veho model but I recently bought a plustek 7500i which I've been pleased with (albeit with no direct comparisons with cheaper/dearer models). I went halves on the cost with my Dad, as he has loads of old transparencies dating back to the '60s, and I have 1000s of 35mm negs.
Anyway, the 7500i has infrared dust/scratch removal (works well with the right software and might be important to you) and a claimed max resolution of 7200dpi if you're willing to wait 4 minutes per slide. I'm scanning at 3600dpi which produces 16M pixel images.
Alternatively, have you thought about paying for someone to scan them for you? Might work out cheaper / better quality if you only have a few to do.
HTH
 
Can I just ask something exceptionally stupid?

Will a negative scanner scan a negative into a normal coloured (or black and white, depending on the neg) image?
 
Indeed; it's about 3 mins/slide at 3600dpi, multipass with an infrared scan. At 7200dpi I guess it could be 2 or 3x that...
It's not actually too bad as long as you can do it as a background task - if you were sat there waiting for each one you'd go slightly mad. I've done over 1500 so far :eek:
 
Cuchulain said:
Can I just ask something exceptionally stupid?

Will a negative scanner scan a negative into a normal coloured (or black and white, depending on the neg) image?
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Yes - you tell the scan software whether it's a positive (transparency) or negative and it does the rest
 
Not automated :(. The neg holder takes a strip of 4 then it's 'preview', check the scan area, hit 'scan', wait 'til it tells you it's finished, advance the neg holder, and repeat ad nauseam.
It's taken several weeks to get this far, but as I said earlier it's not too bad if you're doing it as a background task while concentrating on something else.
I have to admit that my initial enthusiam has worn off a bit and the pace has slowed lately. The original plan was to pay the kids to do some, but the credit crunch obviously hasn't hit them hard enough yet to need the cash.
 
wonko said:
but the credit crunch obviously hasn't hit them hard enough yet to need the cash.
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I used to work at my Dad's office for 40 hours a week for about a fiver and I thought I was getting a good deal. Was 20 years ago though!

But you obviously have far more patience than I do!
 
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