On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:37:56 +0000
bert ] wrote:

In message , Bill
writes
In message , Davey
writes
On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:04:33 +0000
Bill wrote:

Hi,
I'm looking for any personal recommendations for a copier that
will copy from normal 35mm neg's, slides and small glass plate
neg's. Looking around the web there seems to be a multitude of
these, all with glowing reviews! But does anyone here have any
first hand experience of them? I've scanned many photos before,
but this will be my first time with negatives, it would be good
to get a few personal experiences before diving in.

Doing the same as you, I looked at loads of reviews. One guy
offered to take your Ion copier in part exchange and give it a
decent burial. Eventually, I just made my own out of cardboard and
a piece of translucent white plastic sheet that I already had, and
the whole thing sits on my tripod and uses my compact Canon. I have
digitised about 1500 slides for a History Club with this system.
Not much help, I'm afraid!


Interesting Davey, I had looked at Ion, I was worried when I saw
that PC World sold them though :-)
They can't be worse than the Maplin's one!!!

At least with mine, I know where to go to complain if it doesn't work.
And the cost was zero. I use daylight, so I don't even have to pay for
lighting.
The camera conveniently has its USB cable port on the side, so it stays
plugged in, and every so often, I download the images to the PC. I do a
little cleanup using GIMP, as I take the image a little oversize, and
then trim to fit, and rotate if needed.
Now, if I was doing this for a business, I would look at the
professional scanners.
--
Davey.