corelann
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Aug 26, 2008, 9:33 PM
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Re: [RT Steele] Slides---need to scan hundreds
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At what cost per? Quality? Walgreens or Walmart...
I have a Fujix (Fuji???) brand, FV-7 photo-video imager I purchased years ago from B&H. Dunno if such an animal even still exists. Seems it was $400 or so. Been so long cannot remember - maybe $700.
Anyway it is a self-illuminated contraption that feeds via RCA pin plug or S-Video. Slides are fed into a built-in holder one at a time. Time consuming but fairly effective. Kind of a hassle to use though, and doesn't seem to light the slides as well as they should be. I have to screw around with it in order to maximize illumination for various quality (faded, or dense, etc.) slides.
I use it still, sometimes. But, more often than not, since we mostly feed our images directly into our editing system via an overhead 3-chip camera, via S-Video, instead of taking the time to scan on a flatbed (unless, of course the client is willing to pay for that level of service and computer enhancement) I simply set up slides on an old-fashioned slide sorter with plastic tray and bulb burning beneath it.
I shift the slides, zoom and focus, adjust for brightness, then record it via the overhead camera onto our editing system hard drive. Relatively fast and easy. Less time consuming than the FV-7, or scanning, and effective enough for the basic priced montage work we do where a few slides come into the equation.
We charge $2 each for processing slides into the project. About once or twice a year I'll get a project that is all slides and in the hundreds. At $2 each, if I can get the next all slide project done for 35-cents or so at a Walgreen/Walmart, I'll go that route and save myself a bunch of time.
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(This post was edited by corelann on Aug 26, 2008, 9:35 PM)
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