35 mm film scanner

[drs75]

I didn't have a digital camera when my oldest son was born, so all of his pictures are saved on 35 mm negative film. I know that places like photomax.com (www.photomax.com) will scan your film for you, for a monthly fee, if you're wanting to get your old pictures digitalized. I don't know if they scan other sizes of film (I have a lot of negative film from the 1930's-1960's that are not 35mm). I don't know the quality of their scans.

I just bought a scanner specifically designed to scan in 35mm film. It's kind of pricey, but I bought it on sale at costco.com last month, and it was marked down quite a bit.

The scanner is the Prime Film Scanner (PF3650u (http://www.scanace.com/en/product/PF3650u.php)), made by Pacific Image Electronics. Once I learned how to use it, it was easy to adjust my scanned negatives by adjusting the levels in photoshop. The nice thing I like about this little scanner is that it cleans the negative so you don't get the little dust specks like you do when you try to scan the photos in on a flatbed scanner. It's very easy to load the film. It also fixes scratches and small damages on the film, and scans in positive slides. I also got a free copy of PSE 4. I'm very happy with it so far.

[jodee]

Something else that works for scanning negatives and slides is the Epson Stylus Photo RX620, and it’s not really expensive, and it prints super photos (but only as big as 8 ½ by 11.

Jo

[polargirl]

I am looking at purchasing a scanner for my 35mm slides and was wondering if anyone else had suggestions of which one to buy.
I have noted the two above but I had heard that Nikon made a good one also - does anyone own one or can recommend a model of one?
Thanks in advance
Sass

[rhondabwright]

I have one of the older models of the epson printer that copies, scans and prints. It scans negatives really well. I put in a 32yr.old negative and I tried scanning the print and ended up with a new print from the negative that looked as good as new and much better than the old picture I had.

Sorry I don`t know about scanners though but am looking into it since I have 50 yrs. of negatives to scan and archive and felt with so many negatives to scan probably a scanner with a special feed for negatives might be quicker.

[dmrdm]

I have an Epson 4180 Photo Scanner. It is a couple of years old now. It came with the negative holder. The negatives I have scanned come out great. (I have scanned negatives from the 70's.) They turn out a lot better than scanning the hardcopy photo. It is amazing.

[Sharpli]

Hubby has an Epson V700 Photo which he bought last spring. It will do 12 of the 35 mm slides at a time. It will also do the older glass slides, etc. The included software removes dust and scratches, improves color on the fly, etc. It's only a scanner and a bit pricey - $4-500 range, but does a great job. And the 12 at a time is great - set it up to scan and go play a game of Solitaire - or clean the house :( which is what I need to go do now.

[pdrjnn]

I also have the Epson 4180 and am very happy with it. For my dad's Christmas present last year, I scanned all his old 35mm slides. A little work shifting the color in PSE and they came out beautiful!

[seebee]

I use the Epson Perfection 3590 scanner, which has the motorized negative feed slot. It does a good job, but it is slow to scan negatives. It usually takes me about a minute per picture on the negative, so one negative strip takes around 4-5 minutes. But I love having this feature!!! It can also do slides, but I don't have any of those so I can't say how well that part works.

I love my scanner; it's such a great scrapbooking tool to have! :cool:

[Margeeo]

In this months PC World magazine they recommend the Epson Perfection V350 ($ 149.00 ) our the Canon Cano-Scan 8600F ($180.00 ). The 8600F out performed the V350but ,they recommend the Epson if you have a lot 35 mm filmstrips and 35mm slides. It has an easy to use built in auto film loader. Now I just need to decide which one to buy. Hope this helps.

Marge