Message-Id: <mailto:199508151628.LAA14812@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 09:24:50 -0700 From: Stuart Glogoff <mailto:sglogoff@LIBRARY.ARIZONA.EDU> Subject: Re: Roll Film Scanners To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
On Tue, 15 Aug 1995, MSchmeet wrote:> Can anyone point me to a scanner designed to do "batch" scanning from
> uncut 35mm film? I'm aware of the Photo CD workstation, but looking for
> something on a smaller cheaper scale.
If you don't mean something that you can turn on and it will scan a roll all by itself, here's something you can check out. (Need to double check to see if the Screen Scan can be set on autopilot.)
Last Thursday we had a demo in the library by the area Bell and Howell rep of a product they sell called the Screen Scan System. They can retro fit a scanner to an existing reader-- whether fiche, film, pos, or neg-- and scan the image. They replace the readers screen with a piece of glass and scan. If your film is good quality, the Screen Scan System does a great job. You can save the image as a .tiff file, you edit it, block out areas you don't want saved on the image, do all sorts of adjustments, and even fax or email the image.
The good part is, as far as I can tell, that this is an affordable option for most of us. Since you're not buying a really custom built machine, you can get this model for about $12K compared to about $40K for the bigger, self-contained models. You need to provide your own reader and a PC to run the software on and do the saving/editing. Our demo and the models we'd like use are reader/printers and you can still use the machien as a reader printer when the screen scan is installed.
Bell & Howell, Minolta, and Xerox also make the bigger, more costly self-contained units. Clearly you can do more with those units so you'll need to evaluate if the Screen Scan System would work for your needs. But it looks like a pretty versatile option to me.
Stuart
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