P3D Film Scanners

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In a message dated 13/08/98 18:50:41 GMT, Alyssa Malen wrote:

<< My significant other and I bought the HP Photosmart printer and scanner a
 couple a weeks ago and have been pleased so far.  I wanted to buy the Nikon
 Coolscan but decided that until I knew what I was doing, it wasn't
 worthwhile paying that much money.  The only thing I find annoying is that
 when you scan film strips, it assumes that the input was a negative and
 automatically reverses the colors.  I was hoping to scan my uncut Realist
 slides to produce stereo prints.  I couldn't find anything in the software
 that comes with the scanner, Microsoft Picture It, that would reverse the
 image back.  I have since bought another software package that can handle
 the reversals so that problem is now solved.  This software Winimages by
 Black Belt Systems was recommended to us as a less expensive alternative to
 Photoshop.>>
 
Purely by coincidence, I've just acquired an Epson Filmscan 200 to go with my
Colour Stylus 400 printer. I haven't really had much time with it yet (I only
got it today, and yesterday I was travelling back from NSA !!!) but I have
noticed that the drivers that came with it allows a choice between positve and
negative for filmstrips.

And I've ordered a spare slide carrier so I can modify it to take realist size
mounts - two at a time!

I'll keep you all posted as to how I get on

Bob Aldridge


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