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Film & Slide scanner for $99

http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_8901.htm

This looks very similar to a Glanz unit that is brought in via FVE. I think I may need to pick one up for a bit of a play....but then again I have to format my computer urgently....

Great spot...probably not going to be the best quality but it will get the job done.

They do quite a nice line in pasta sauces at Aldi too.

What's an Aldi post without input from me?
My Aldi laptop (Medion) is nearly 4 years old and still going strong...just .

phillipb wrote:Film & Slide scanner for $99
http://www.aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_8901.htm

It's not going to be very high res though. Something like the Epson V700 claims 4800dpi but only delivers around half that, perhaps a little more, because it is a theoretical not an actual resolution. A nikon film scanner will have much better actual resolution than the Epson and be close to the quoted dpi. In this case it only claims 1800dpi and is probably less.

OK for web display, maybe OK to print to 10x8 if you're lucky. Then there is the question of how good the scanning software is. Epson's is OK though not as good as Silverfast, Canon's is abysmal and though the Canon 9950 was quite a good scanner, you didn't want to use the Canon software with it. I think it's very likely that this is the same. Silverfast would be too expensive (and probably doesn't support it) so you'd need to factor in the cost of Vuescan (and the time of learning to use it).

An Epson V350 for $240 is probably a much better option. It will have essentially the same scanning engine as the V700, just that you can only scan a few slides at a time (as with the Aldi one).

Still, there might be a use for scanning pasta sauces (personally I prefer the unscanned ones).

Regards,
Murray

The PlusTek scanners that FVE bring in come with SilverFast...
http://www.digitalcamerawarehouse.com.au/category511_1.htm

I remember looking and thinking about getting one.

Possibly a better option but I strongly suspect also in the class of too good to be true. Just consider that they have a 7200dpi scanner for $350 whereas the cheapest Nikon 4000dpi scanner is $1200. I've never seen a Plustek review from a reputable site such as Photo-i. I'd would want to pay extra to get it from a store where you could try it out and compare it against others.

Regards,
Murray

A mate bought one on Monday morning. Took it back yesterday. Slow, shit colours and low res.

An Aldi or a Plustek?

Aldi

norbs wrote:A mate bought one on Monday morning. Took it back yesterday. Slow, shit colours and low res.

So everything came out sorta brown??