film scanner hire?

[jdear]

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

[Nnnnsic]

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.

[jdear]

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

[redline]

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.

[genji]

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

[jdear]

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

JD

[genji]

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

[Glen]

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

[Matt. K]

jdear
How many rolls do you need to scan?

[MattC]

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

[jdear]

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

[jdear]

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

[Nnnnsic]

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?

[MattC]

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

[Nnnnsic]

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.

[sirhc55]

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

[Nnnnsic]

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.

[MattC]

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

[MattC]

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

Cheers

Matt

[Matt. K]

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.

[jdear]

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

JD

[jdear]

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

[MattC]

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

[Matt. K]

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

[Willy wombat]

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.