Scanner for 126 film

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Andy Champ

I'm digitising my slide collection. I've put about 300 35mm slides
through a Nikon LS2000, and that worked pretty well, however some of my
slides are 126 format. They are in a 2x2 mount, but the image in the
middle is square. The side of the square is longer than the short axis
of a 35mm slide, so the LS2000 cuts the edges off. My images are 26mm
square (Kodak mounts) or 27.5 (Agfa mounts)

Can anyone recommend a decent scanner that I can beg/borrow/lease/buy
and resell on eBay/steal to do the job?

I'm on a PC, and have USB, Firewire and SCSI-2.

I've seen John Corliss's questions, however he's talking about
negatives; I have mounted slides.

Thanks
Andy
 
Andy Champ said:
I'm digitising my slide collection. I've put about 300 35mm slides
through a Nikon LS2000, and that worked pretty well, however some of my
slides are 126 format. They are in a 2x2 mount, but the image in the
middle is square. The side of the square is longer than the short axis of
a 35mm slide, so the LS2000 cuts the edges off. My images are 26mm square
(Kodak mounts) or 27.5 (Agfa mounts)

Can anyone recommend a decent scanner that I can beg/borrow/lease/buy and
resell on eBay/steal to do the job?

I'm on a PC, and have USB, Firewire and SCSI-2.

I've seen John Corliss's questions, however he's talking about negatives;
I have mounted slides.

Thanks
Andy
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It is possible to scan 126 slides or Negatives with a Canon 8400F flatbed
scanner.
http://www.carlmcmillan.com/odd_size_film/Odd_film.htm
 
Andy said:
I'm digitising my slide collection. I've put about 300 35mm slides
through a Nikon LS2000, and that worked pretty well, however some of my
slides are 126 format. They are in a 2x2 mount, but the image in the
middle is square. The side of the square is longer than the short axis
of a 35mm slide, so the LS2000 cuts the edges off. My images are 26mm
square (Kodak mounts) or 27.5 (Agfa mounts)

Can anyone recommend a decent scanner that I can beg/borrow/lease/buy
and resell on eBay/steal to do the job?

I'm on a PC, and have USB, Firewire and SCSI-2.

I've seen John Corliss's questions, however he's talking about
negatives; I have mounted slides.

Thanks
Andy
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I have scanned them with Minolta Multi, this was for my parents years
ago. There is a manual crop on the LS2000, not sure if it will allow
you to go wider on the 24mm side. I have replaced the LS2000 at work
with an Epson V700 which definitely could scan them (again manual
crop). The V700 has more dynamic range than the LS2000 and is equal in
sharpness and about 3x faster (without digital ice on) haven't compared
them with DI on. Also has the DI3 rather than DI1 on the LS2000.

Tom
 
Hi -

I own a slide and negative scanning company called Pixmonix.

We scan 126 and 127 slides on the Nikon 9000 ED medium format scanner
when we need to image the full frame area (some customers choose to
live with the truncated images). The scanners are slow, expensive and
more painful to work with than a dedicated 35mm scanner like the 2000
(or the newer 5000ED). With the 9000ED, in order to scan the full
126/127 frame area you need to use the glass film holder (the 869G).
These glass holders are tough to come by at the moment. The standard
35mm slide holder won't allow imaging of the full 127 frame area.

Some of the newer flatbeds do a decent job, too. e.g. Epson V750. They
aren't as good a dedicated film scanner, but they are pretty close.

The Nikon 9000 is an expensive alternative... but given the fact that
the Milota scanners are no longer readily available, it may be the only
option if you don't want to use a flatbed. If you can find a 9000 (they
are periodically in short supply) I suspect that reselling it won't be
a problem. (If you have a used glass holder in good condition, I would
probably buy it from you.) Alternatively, you can send off the 127
slides for scanning at a service house like Pixmonix. Depending on how
many slides you have, this may be faster and cheaper than finding a
solution to do it yourself.

Regards -

--Steve Bennett
http://www.pixmonix.com
 
Steve said:
Hi -

I own a slide and negative scanning company called Pixmonix.

We scan 126 and 127 slides on the Nikon 9000 ED medium format scanner
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Steve, are you thinking of the 126 I'm thinking of?

A quick reference...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_format

... there are two 126 films, I mean the little Instamatic size. My
slides are in standard 2x2 inch mounts. The hole in the middle is just
a little larger than 35mm one way, and a bit smaller the other way.

Commercially BTW I can't use your services. Like most people, I'm not
in the USA.

Andy
 
Andy said:
I'm digitising my slide collection. I've put about 300 35mm slides
through a Nikon LS2000, and that worked pretty well, however some of my
slides are 126 format. They are in a 2x2 mount, but the image in the
middle is square. The side of the square is longer than the short axis
of a 35mm slide, so the LS2000 cuts the edges off. My images are 26mm
square (Kodak mounts) or 27.5 (Agfa mounts)

Can anyone recommend a decent scanner that I can beg/borrow/lease/buy
and resell on eBay/steal to do the job?

I'm on a PC, and have USB, Firewire and SCSI-2.

I've seen John Corliss's questions, however he's talking about
negatives; I have mounted slides.

Thanks
Andy
Click to expand...

I have had an EPSON perfection V700 PHOTO for a few weeks and am impressed
and happy with the results. It should easy to sell afterwards IMHO.
Also see the review here.
http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson V700/page_1.htm

Cheers,
Ian.
 
Hi andy -

Yes, I mean the instamatic negative film, too. We scan 126 and 127
slides and negatives in the Nikon 9000 ED. Sorry that my first response
wasn't complet on this.

(I have lots of 126 negatives in my family photo collection. It is
quite refreshing to see the square format after looking at 35mm so
regularly for the last 25 years!)

--Steve
 
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