Film scanner, perhaps?

[BarnacleGrim]

This would be very cool to have:

http://www.tradera.com/Polaroid-SprintScan-4000-diascanner-filmscanner-auktion_340831_113588757

I have tons of old family pictures and slides fading away, it would be nice to get the negatives scanned before it's too late. Unfortunately the guy priced double the buy-it-now price on eBay with a reserve! 8-o

Naturally no-one has placed a bid, maybe I should send him a message tomorrow when the auction closes? I'd be willing to pay the eBay price.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

You're lucky, my ex threw away all the negatives I had taken! :

Every pic in the family albums had the roll# and neg# printed on the back too! She did give me all the slides (mega-oodles of them) and the cube projector, along with all the other goodies in "my" section of the wall unit I'd built. At her behest, I stopped taking KodaChromes (better archival qualities than just about anything but digital, given multiple offsite backups!) and switched to negatives so she wouldn't have to go through the trouble of having prints made from my slides!

She felt really bad about the negatives, we're very good friends, but I snagged a 10 MegaPixel, OS9 friendly, Nikon CoolScan on eBay last summer and I haven't had the urge to even try it out since hearing her confession . . .

. . . but ONE DAY!!!! [] ]'>

 

[BarnacleGrim]

Two new scanners have come up, at more reasonable prices.

http://www.tradera.com/Polaroid-Sprintscan-45-Scanner-auktion_340831_114169234

http://www.tradera.com/Polaroid-Sprintscan-35-Plus-Scanner-auktion_340831_114169576

I may be out of luck with Mac OS X, though. I can't find any drivers, and a SCSI card with Mac OS X support seems unheard of as well. Perhaps it will work with my 7600.

 

[Baboon!]

I have a Polaroid SprintScan 35 here if you'd like to have it. (not the Plus as you have linked here - it's actually the Apple Platinum color, not black). It has the software and hardware manuals, along with the original software disc. I don't have a carrier for the film, but they are probably standardized or easy to fabricate.

Let me know if you're interested - I'd let it go for a little over postage.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

I may be out of luck with Mac OS X, though. I can't find any drivers, and a SCSI card with Mac OS X support seems unheard of as well. Perhaps it will work with my 7600.

All the more reason to procure & keep a tricked out OS9 system for graphics peripherals/workflow. The prices are much better, for hardware that is far more available than anything with drivers for X or current Windows Revs.

Besides, I never did like X, so I'm livin' in an OS9 world and back into exploring an awesome new rev of Debian on my NetBook for use on my (to be completed eventually, as funds and time allow) GimpBoxHack™!

My QSO2's standard equipment included an X compatible Fast (Wide too?) SCSI card, so I'm not quite sure what you're saying about SCSI & X?

 

[BarnacleGrim]

I finally found a SprintScan 4000 that wasn't priced out of the sky. It comes with a SCSI card, but he didn't say which type, and I didn't ask, just to make my 7600 feel useful. At 144 MB it should have enough RAM. The biggest bottleneck would probably be the Asanté Fast card not working, but I could just transfer the files overnight. But if it turns out to be OS X compatible I suppose VueScan will get the job done. We'll see when it gets here.

 

[4seasonphoto]

Nice! At least the 7600 has 10 Base T.

I really ought to borrow a Nikon Coolscan and start scanning my own negatives and slides. I got at least 3 friends who own the things and probably have not used them in years. Don't know what to do about the medium- and large-format photos though.

 

[BarnacleGrim]

It arrived today, and after much Googling I managed to find a French version of PolaColor Insight, which I installed on my 7600.

This is a 40 year old Kodachrome of Dry Martini, the family dog. The quality is great, I just need to clean the film before scanning. The 7600 doesn't really have the memory to deal with high res images, so I'll just scan in batches and transfer to my G5 running Aperture for colour correction and archiving. Still, I'd love to soup up the 7600 a bit.