In message , John
Rumm writes
On 31/01/2015 13:04, 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.

I have done a fair bit of this - but with kit that is now "old"... I
actually found in spite of having a dedicated high end film scanner, I
could get very decent results with a good flatbed with trannie hood
(Epson Expression 1680 pro). It makes a very credible job of misc
shaped negs and other transparancies.

For bulk slides, these days it probably better to take them for
conversion to CD/DVD rathet than but a scanner unless you are doing
lots of them.



It is my late fathers lifetime collection, starting from about 1935,
some are on glass plates, the later are 35mm. Plus some other glass ones
will be earlier they belong to my grandfather and date from goodness
knows when. I hate to think of the quantity, but there are a lot!

The later ones come complete with prints, so I can see what they are
easily, but a lot of the earlier ones are just the negatives. Much as I
would love to let someone else convert them I think the cost would be
rather high, plus, not having started to do it yet, I think that it may
be quite enjoyable. Thoughts may change over time of course :-)
--
Bill