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Ive had quite a few rolls of slide film recently expended.

Instead of spending $18 / roll to get it put onto CD (at only 6.5mb jpeg filesize) It would end up being cheaper for me to hire a film scanner for the weekend, as I could spend most of it scanning up film to alot higher filesize (better for my work anyway)

Does anyone know where I can hire a 35mm film scanner with around 4000dpi?

many thanks,

JD

I've never heard of a slide scanner rental service.

You might want to ask Matt K. I think he just got a 35mm scanner.

i found a great photographic hire company, which does hire film scanners... but its sadly in perth!

certainly i could hire off a member, id pickup / drop off and look after it as if it were my own.

JD

i think kayell hires them out, i had tried them out here in vic.
give the sydney office a call or you could buy a scanner then resell it after your finshed scanner all your negs.

I've rented Nikon slide/film scanner from Kayell vic office before. i think the high end scanners let u scan multiple slides, cause i was able to scan multiple film frames in succession. saves alot of time!! although USB 1.0 let me down

emailed the Kayell NSW branch, they dont do scanners. Oh the joys of living in NSW!

JD

thats supprising! i'm all out of ideas. good luck in your search.

Jdear, how about buying one, using it and reselling afterwards, probably about the same cost as rental. That is what sirhc55 did.

jdear
How many rolls do you need to scan?

I came across this in a wholesale catalog down at the local photo lab last week. Retail price of about $260.

http://www.plustek.com/products/film.htm

Maybe good, maybe junk.

Cheers

Matt

so far about 4x36. Im trying to think ahead really. I have 4 more rolls in my fridge waiting to be shot. If i can save $80 by not getting them to put it on CD, i can put this towards hiring one, and do it at higher res and do more rolls (other rolls ive taken previously).

Processing at E6 is only $8.80 at vision graphics. Another $8.80 to mount them.

JD

Buying one could be feasible, providing I wouldn't lose too much money in the resale of it.

i do have an acquaintance with a nikon LS-3000. Maybe I should convince him I need to borrow it.

I can see the benefits of joining a local photo club!

JD

MattC wrote:I came across this in a wholesale catalog down at the local photo lab last week. Retail price of about $260.

Is this US dollars or AU dollars?

Even in US dollars, I don't see how a 7200 dpi slide scanner is possible at that price point.

Not even the Minolta is that good / inexpensive. I mean hell, the Minolta is one of the best pieces of slide scanning technology you can get your hands on especially at the price... but 7200 dpi for a less expensive box?

AU dollars, but I could have misread.

US price is about US$190. I did a quick Google search. I could not find anything in Australia.

The price had me scratching my head also. The Minolta scanners that I looked at were over a thousand bucks for what... 5400dpi (??). Nikon is totally out of my price range.

Cheers

Matt

Damn... these might be worth a random purchase just to see how good they possibly can be... I mean.. 7200 is pretty bloody impressive a claim.. I've lot to put it on test... you could essentially reach Super A3 with no problems on a neg scanned at 7200.

It could be that they have interpolated 7200dpi rather than optical

True, and that would be the concerning factor, but regardless, I've emailed one of the distributors / retailers down here for more information.

I'm going to have to go searching for a review.

This box vs. a Coolscan 4000 or 5000 or even the Minolta box would make for some interesting testing, as well as this box vs. the D2x.

I could not find any decent in depth reviews on this scanner, but from what I have been able to find it would appear that it is on par with a halfway decent flatbed. It could be just flatbed tech in a fancy case.

Companies like Canon could probably take existing tech, spend 3 weeks on R&D and churn them out in their millions for a retail price of $150. Just a thought.

It might be worth burning a couple of hundred bucks on, just for a look see. If it is no good, most of the money spent could be recovered on eBay.

Cheers

Matt

What happened there?? 3 minutes or so and the forum was inaccessible.

Cheers

Matt

jdear
I am currently scanning all of my filmstock using a Minolta/Dimmage dualcsan 11. I purchased it from someone who brought it new. It currently is only 3 months old and it will take me about 3 months to scan all of my stuff after which it will be for sale for around $350. It will still have 6 months warrenty when I sell it. Hope you can wait that long.

Ill certainly keep that in mind matt.k, many thanks!

JD

ok i found one place in sydney that hires them... well it. they only have one...

Minolta Scan Elite 5400 (5400dpi) film scanner

techrentals.com.au

rather pricey...

1 day: $133.95
1 week: $220.87
2 weeks: $297.30
3 weeks: $350.05
1 month: $434.72

including Gst...

Sheesh im in the wrong business!

JD

Ouch... At those prices you could by your own and hire it out, or set yourself up to do some part time digitising to recover the cost.

Cheers

Matt

If anyone considers hiring...let me advise you it's slow going and you'll be flat out scanning 70 pics in one day.

Matt. K wrote:If anyone considers hiring...let me advise you it's slow going and you'll be flat out scanning 70 pics in one day.

Especially at such high res. I scan in slides at work at 2400dpi and they take about 5 minutes on the first run and then 3 minutes on the second. Also i hope you have a lot of disk space, even at this res the images are usually about 25mb each. At 5000dpi+ you are looking at huge files.