jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
** I'm not as good as I was once, but I am as good once as I ever was.. "A nasty bit of rough" by David Feherty **
I'm looking for a reasonably priced scanner to input photos old documents . Occassionally some new documents and assorted art projects . I was looking to get some sort of box that would do slides as well, but the buzz on that is not good.. unless one is in the multi thousand dollar range. I'm not, since this is for home use , largely. Maybe up to $500-600 ??? Prefer fewer $$ rather than more , of course, but quality is not a trivial matter . Many of the photos are early 20th Cent. For that sort of thing ( very old, and largely irreplaceable photos ) and the only solution I can see for slides is to ship them off to somewhere to be scanned onto a Kodak Photodisk. It's pricey, but so far anyway I *can* be assured that the quality of the materials isn't compromised .. If anyone would like to reply directly so we don't take up the SuSE bandwidth , feel free to email me directly. TIA
Just stay away from Canon. They simply just do not co-operate with Linux driver-writers and most of their scanners are unusable with Linux - like my D1230U. HPs are normally overpriced. The Epsons are the way to go. And, as you say you are going to do, when doing slides you need at least 2400 dpi resolution; however, the ONLY real way to do slides is to buy a scanner specifically designed to scan slides. But, unfortunately, you pay some big $$$ for such a scanner. -- I was very heavily into pornography. Then my pornograph broke.