Slide scanners

[P3D H a r o l d B a i z e <baize@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil writes:
>I see that there are quite a number of "affordable" 35mm film scanners 
>available now - from Epson, HP, Canon, Nikon, etc. Most of these take 
>2x2 slides or negative strips in a special holder. Does anybody know if 
>any of these can be used with 101x44 mounted stereo slides? I have some 
>slides in RBT, Albion and card mounts, which I obviously don't want to 
>have to unmount for scanning. I only want to scan one of the pair in 
>most cases. Has anybody any experience of these scanners with stereo 
>slides, please.

I recently bought the ScanMaker 35T Plus. It is great. It cost 
$750 from MicroWarehouse (I ordered it via the internet and 
it was at my door step the next day!). I have not yet tried to 
scan a slide in a Realist format mount, but it should be no 
problem, you would just need to rotate the scanned image when 
finished. I'll try it tonight and report back. I do believe,
however, that it is better to take the film out of the mount.

I bought it because I found that I'm spending one to two 
hundred dollars a year to scan slides at a service bureau. 
Even with the high cost the scans often contain some minor 
rotation, which is very difficult to correct later. 

Harolddd...


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