What scanner to get?

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What scanner to get? Anonymous 09/30/15 (Wed) 05:55:39 No.897

Hey guys, glad to see traffic is starting to pick up around here.

Anyhoo, I have a couple of boxes of old family photos that I want to scan and digitize. Any recommendations on a good scanner?

I don't need anything state of the art, just something that can scan at a high quality and isn't to large.

Thanks!

Anonymous 09/30/15 (Wed) 07:28:23 No.898

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>>897

Should of made a general gear thread BTW

Anonymous 10/01/15 (Thu) 02:34:40 No.900

>>898

That's not really what I'm talking about at all. I'm talking about 5x7 photos.

Thanks for the bump though and your hipster video. How neat!

Anonymous 10/01/15 (Thu) 06:06:20 No.901

Epson's film scanners are considered to be pretty good. Personally, I've been looking at this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Canon-CanoScan-9000F-MKII-Scanner/dp/B00AGV7TQG/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8

I can't speak for the quality of any of these, though.

Anonymous 10/02/15 (Fri) 15:29:58 No.907

OP just get a macro lens for your dslr and a small macro tripod. Take high quality photos of your negatives then just invert the colors, set the levels, and crop in Photoshop or gimp. this method has way better quality than most scanners that mortals can afford.

Anonymous 10/02/15 (Fri) 18:01:42 No.913

>>907

This sounds so wonky though.

>>901

Thanks for the post!

Anonymous 10/03/15 (Sat) 03:24:41 No.914

>>907

How much would you have pay for a scanner that beats a $3-400 used APS-C dslr? How much is a decent macro lens?