![]() ![]() In the years since 2003, like most people into photography and technology, I have picked up bits and pieces over the years. This is the same scanner I am still using today. So in 2003 I took the plunge and bought a Minolta Dual Scan 3 ( Minolta DS3 ), it cost about 300 pounds. ![]() Of the market Minolta had a good name and appeared to have a good product. ![]() Some were expensive, some were more reasonably priced. ![]() Had been using other products and could give honest feedback on the products.īy early 2003 many film camera manufacturers were making their own film scanners ( Canon, Minolta, Nikon being the main ones ). I decided to wait a year or two until people It was awful, poor scans, slow and buggy. The first scanner I purchased was a Pacific 1800u in the early 2000's. I needed a method of scanning my film archive onto the PC. With the move to digital in the early 2000's, This resulted in a stack of negatives and slides. The background to this comparison is that I have been taking photos for over 40 years, the first 25 on film. Note that today if you have a high-end digital camera, a macro shooting capability, a method of mounting and backlighting your film /slidesĪnd good Photoshop skills you can scan your negatives / slides without using any of the options I use ( dedicated film scanner or flatbed with film scanning options ). So this is a write up of a comparison I have done of different film scanning devices. Due to the current Coronavirus lockdown ( April 2020 ) its given me time to do a few of those " I must do that one day " projects. ![]()
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