Purchased "DIGITNOW!" film scanner, which (hopefully) outputs to a USB port. I cannot get any video out of this thing on Linux or Windows. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Help, please. --doug
Le 07/08/2021 à 01:52, Douglas McGarrett a écrit :
Purchased "DIGITNOW!" film scanner, which (hopefully) outputs to a USB port. I cannot get any video out of this thing on Linux or Windows. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Help, please. --doug
"film" is a reference to the old cello way of making photos, *still* photos, if yours is some sort of: https://www.amazon.fr/Scanner-Num%C3%A9riseur-multifonction-n%C3%A9gatifs-nu... scaners for *movies* are much more expensive, usually not for amateur use https://www.amazon.fr/Scanner-pellicule-Digitalisation-Digital-Converter/dp/... jdd -- http://dodin.org
On 07/08/2021 01.52, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
Purchased "DIGITNOW!" film scanner, which (hopefully) outputs to a USB port. I cannot get any video out of this thing on Linux or Windows. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Help, please.
You will have to first describe in detail that machine. A web page describing it would be nice. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
On 8/7/21 6:31 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 07/08/2021 01.52, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
Purchased "DIGITNOW!" film scanner, which (hopefully) outputs to a USB port. I cannot get any video out of this thing on Linux or Windows. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Help, please. You will have to first describe in detail that machine. A web page describing it would be nice.
Well, this is probably not helpful, but here is one such page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMzs1Xvysg The device claims to read positive (slides) and negative film. Its built-in screen does do that. Nothing I tried on Windows or Linux gave any indication that the device even existed. I don't have any trouble connecting my Panasonic camera or a webcam to the computer, so I blame the device for not working. I sent it back to Amazon for a replacement. Like the gentleman in the "review" I have lots of old slides going back to the 50s or earlier. --doug
Le 07/08/2021 à 19:53, Douglas McGarrett a écrit :
Well, this is probably not helpful, but here is one such page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMzs1Xvysg
ok, so *still* photograph scanner, nice.
The device claims to read positive (slides) and negative film. Its built-in screen does do that. Nothing I tried on Windows or Linux gave any indication that the device even existed.
I didn't have time to look at all the video, is it not possible to scan to sd card? I don't have any trouble connecting my
Panasonic camera or a webcam to the computer, so I blame the device for not working.
I sent it back to Amazon for a replacement. Like the gentleman in the "review" I have lots of old slides going back to the 50s or earlier. --doug
next time, you can test "Vuescan", not open nor free, but extremely good as film scanner (not expensive and there is a free demo) be warned than such scanner do not give very good results, mostly because the dust on the film. One need an expensive Nikon scanner, I did so for around 10.000 images around 2009. I buy a second hand scanner and sold it afterward the price I paid, so at no cost finally jdd -- http://dodin.org
On 8/7/21 2:07 PM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 07/08/2021 à 19:53, Douglas McGarrett a écrit :
Well, this is probably not helpful, but here is one such page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMzs1Xvysg
ok, so *still* photograph scanner, nice.
The device claims to read positive (slides) and negative film. Its built-in screen does do that. Nothing I tried on Windows or Linux gave any indication that the device even existed.
I didn't have time to look at all the video, is it not possible to scan to sd card?
I don't have any trouble connecting my
Panasonic camera or a webcam to the computer, so I blame the device for not working.
I sent it back to Amazon for a replacement. Like the gentleman in the "review" I have lots of old slides going back to the 50s or earlier. --doug
next time, you can test "Vuescan", not open nor free, but extremely good as film scanner (not expensive and there is a free demo)
be warned than such scanner do not give very good results, mostly because the dust on the film. One need an expensive Nikon scanner, I did so for around 10.000 images around 2009. I buy a second hand scanner and sold it afterward the price I paid, so at no cost finally
jdd
I wonder what the Nikon does for dust on the film? Anyway, we'll see what this thing does if the replacement works. --doug
Le 07/08/2021 à 20:13, Douglas McGarrett a écrit :
I wonder what the Nikon does for dust on the film? Anyway, we'll see what this thing does if the replacement works. --doug
blu led reflect on the film to detect dust, nearly magical! jdd -- http://dodin.org
On Sunday 08 August 2021, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 07/08/2021 à 19:53, Douglas McGarrett a écrit :
Well, this is probably not helpful, but here is one such page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMzs1Xvysg
ok, so *still* photograph scanner, nice.
The device claims to read positive (slides) and negative film. Its built-in screen does do that. Nothing I tried on Windows or Linux gave any indication that the device even existed.
I didn't have time to look at all the video, is it not possible to scan to sd card?
I don't have any trouble connecting my
Panasonic camera or a webcam to the computer, so I blame the device for not working.
I sent it back to Amazon for a replacement. Like the gentleman in the "review" I have lots of old slides going back to the 50s or earlier. --doug
next time, you can test "Vuescan", not open nor free, but extremely good as film scanner (not expensive and there is a free demo)
be warned than such scanner do not give very good results, mostly because the dust on the film. One need an expensive Nikon scanner, I did so for around 10.000 images around 2009. I buy a second hand scanner and sold it afterward the price I paid, so at no cost finally
jdd
If you're good at DIY and knowledgeable concerning photo processing, it can be faster to make a first pass using a digital camera with a suitable macro lens, a DIY slide holder, and software that can batch negate and color adjust images (a piece of fully exposed negative can be used to get a rough take on the color correction). I used KDE's digikam to batch convert and cleanup quite a few negatives. Once the keeper negatives are identified, they can be sent to a lab to be put through the best equipment available (if that's really necessary, in my case not). Sample simple DIY rig: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/64441223 Sample result from above rig: https://www.dpreview.com/galleries/5138299782/photos/2819957/scanned-from-ne... Sample crop at full resolution: https://www.dpreview.com/galleries/5138299782/photos/2819956/negative-scan-1... Michael
On 8/7/21 5:11 PM, Michael Hamilton wrote:
On Sunday 08 August 2021, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 07/08/2021 à 19:53, Douglas McGarrett a écrit :
Well, this is probably not helpful, but here is one such page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMzs1Xvysg ok, so *still* photograph scanner, nice.
The device claims to read positive (slides) and negative film. Its built-in screen does do that. Nothing I tried on Windows or Linux gave any indication that the device even existed. I didn't have time to look at all the video, is it not possible to scan to sd card?
I don't have any trouble connecting my
Panasonic camera or a webcam to the computer, so I blame the device for not working.
I sent it back to Amazon for a replacement. Like the gentleman in the "review" I have lots of old slides going back to the 50s or earlier. --doug
next time, you can test "Vuescan", not open nor free, but extremely good as film scanner (not expensive and there is a free demo)
be warned than such scanner do not give very good results, mostly because the dust on the film. One need an expensive Nikon scanner, I did so for around 10.000 images around 2009. I buy a second hand scanner and sold it afterward the price I paid, so at no cost finally
jdd
If you're good at DIY and knowledgeable concerning photo processing, it can be faster to make a first pass using a digital camera with a suitable macro lens, a DIY slide holder, and software that can batch negate and color adjust images (a piece of fully exposed negative can be used to get a rough take on the color correction). I used KDE's digikam to batch convert and cleanup quite a few negatives. Once the keeper negatives are identified, they can be sent to a lab to be put through the best equipment available (if that's really necessary, in my case not).
Sample simple DIY rig: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/64441223
Sample result from above rig: https://www.dpreview.com/galleries/5138299782/photos/2819957/scanned-from-ne...
Sample crop at full resolution: https://www.dpreview.com/galleries/5138299782/photos/2819956/negative-scan-1...
Michael That's very impressive. My father once built a rig something like that. As a teacher of history at the high-school level, he built a framework to copy National Geographic
color pages--to slides, of course. He used a fairly simple 35mm camera and a closeup lens. I don't know how he got the focus correct--this was before the SLR was invented--at least at an affordable level. (I think Graflex might have made one then. This was in the mid 1940s.) Pop eventually wrote a book on photography-- "Toward Better Photography" --Vincent McGarrett, 1947. Some of that rubbed off on me, but I never got that deeply into it! --doug
On 2021-08-07 10:39 p.m., Douglas McGarrett wrote:
On 8/7/21 5:11 PM, Michael Hamilton wrote:
On Sunday 08 August 2021, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 07/08/2021 à 19:53, Douglas McGarrett a écrit :
Well, this is probably not helpful, but here is one such page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMzs1Xvysg ok, so *still* photograph scanner, nice.
The device claims to read positive (slides) and negative film. Its built-in screen does do that. Nothing I tried on Windows or Linux gave any indication that the device even existed. I didn't have time to look at all the video, is it not possible to scan to sd card?
I don't have any trouble connecting my
Panasonic camera or a webcam to the computer, so I blame the device for not working.
I sent it back to Amazon for a replacement. Like the gentleman in the "review" I have lots of old slides going back to the 50s or earlier. --doug
next time, you can test "Vuescan", not open nor free, but extremely good as film scanner (not expensive and there is a free demo)
be warned than such scanner do not give very good results, mostly because the dust on the film. One need an expensive Nikon scanner, I did so for around 10.000 images around 2009. I buy a second hand scanner and sold it afterward the price I paid, so at no cost finally
jdd
If you're good at DIY and knowledgeable concerning photo processing, it can be faster to make a first pass using a digital camera with a suitable macro lens, a DIY slide holder, and software that can batch negate and color adjust images (a piece of fully exposed negative can be used to get a rough take on the color correction). I used KDE's digikam to batch convert and cleanup quite a few negatives. Once the keeper negatives are identified, they can be sent to a lab to be put through the best equipment available (if that's really necessary, in my case not).
Sample simple DIY rig: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/64441223
Sample result from above rig: https://www.dpreview.com/galleries/5138299782/photos/2819957/scanned-from-ne...
Sample crop at full resolution: https://www.dpreview.com/galleries/5138299782/photos/2819956/negative-scan-1...
Michael That's very impressive. My father once built a rig something like that. As a teacher of history at the high-school level, he built a framework to copy National Geographic
color pages--to slides, of course. He used a fairly simple 35mm camera and a closeup lens. I don't know how he got the focus correct--this was before the SLR was invented--at least at an affordable level. (I think Graflex might have made one then. This was in the mid 1940s.) Pop eventually wrote a book on photography-- "Toward Better Photography" --Vincent McGarrett, 1947. Some of that rubbed off on me, but I never got that deeply into it! --doug
Mucho if you google https://fstoppers.com/education/how-use-your-dslr-scan-negatives-137248#comm... http://www.austinpaz.com/blog/2015/6/16/35mm-film-scanner Much illustrated https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/lets-see-your-dslr-film-scanning-setup/2... DPReview has threads about scanning using different cameras. Overwhelming. Decision paralysis. -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg
On 07/08/2021 19.53, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
On 8/7/21 6:31 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 07/08/2021 01.52, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
Purchased "DIGITNOW!" film scanner, which (hopefully) outputs to a USB port. I cannot get any video out of this thing on Linux or Windows. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Help, please. You will have to first describe in detail that machine. A web page describing it would be nice.
Well, this is probably not helpful, but here is one such page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMzs1Xvysg
The device claims to read positive (slides) and negative film. Its built-in screen does do that. Nothing I tried on Windows or Linux gave any indication that the device even existed. I don't have any trouble connecting my Panasonic camera or a webcam to the computer, so I blame the device for not working.
I sent it back to Amazon for a replacement. Like the gentleman in the "review" I have lots of old slides going back to the 50s or earlier.
Just give me the Amazon link of the product. Does the thing have a memory card that you can remove? Well, scan a batch of photos, switch off, take the card, plug it on the computer. I have a scanner similar to that one. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
On 8/7/21 5:02 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 07/08/2021 19.53, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
On 8/7/21 6:31 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 07/08/2021 01.52, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
Purchased "DIGITNOW!" film scanner, which (hopefully) outputs to a USB port. I cannot get any video out of this thing on Linux or Windows. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Help, please. You will have to first describe in detail that machine. A web page describing it would be nice.
Well, this is probably not helpful, but here is one such page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMzs1Xvysg
The device claims to read positive (slides) and negative film. Its built-in screen does do that. Nothing I tried on Windows or Linux gave any indication that the device even existed. I don't have any trouble connecting my Panasonic camera or a webcam to the computer, so I blame the device for not working.
I sent it back to Amazon for a replacement. Like the gentleman in the "review" I have lots of old slides going back to the 50s or earlier.
Just give me the Amazon link of the product.
Does the thing have a memory card that you can remove? Well, scan a batch of photos, switch off, take the card, plug it on the computer.
I have a scanner similar to that one.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/DIGITNOW/FILMSCANNER/page/6A0D6E64-2544-4A21-A... The picture at the top right is the unit I bought. Apparently this outfit has a bunch of products, but I never heard of them before. Yes, it has a memory card, and I could put it in an adapter and then look at it on the computer, but that seems like a lot of work for a bunch of slides, many of which I would not want to copy. It is also not obvious how the card sequences pictures, etc. The instructions are extremely minimal. --doug
On 07/08/2021 23.54, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
On 8/7/21 5:02 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 07/08/2021 19.53, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
On 8/7/21 6:31 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 07/08/2021 01.52, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
Purchased "DIGITNOW!" film scanner, which (hopefully) outputs to a USB port. I cannot get any video out of this thing on Linux or Windows. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Help, please. You will have to first describe in detail that machine. A web page describing it would be nice.
Well, this is probably not helpful, but here is one such page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMzs1Xvysg
The device claims to read positive (slides) and negative film. Its built-in screen does do that. Nothing I tried on Windows or Linux gave any indication that the device even existed. I don't have any trouble connecting my Panasonic camera or a webcam to the computer, so I blame the device for not working.
I sent it back to Amazon for a replacement. Like the gentleman in the "review" I have lots of old slides going back to the 50s or earlier.
Just give me the Amazon link of the product.
Does the thing have a memory card that you can remove? Well, scan a batch of photos, switch off, take the card, plug it on the computer.
I have a scanner similar to that one.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/DIGITNOW/FILMSCANNER/page/6A0D6E64-2544-4A21-A...
The picture at the top right is the unit I bought. Apparently this outfit has a bunch of products, but I never heard of them before.
Top right? "22 MPSuper 8 Film Scanner"? Are you sure is that one? <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0781FWMGZ>
Yes, it has a memory card, and I could put it in an adapter and then look at it on the computer, but that seems like a lot of work for a bunch of slides, many of which I would not want to copy. It is also not obvious how the card sequences pictures, etc. The instructions are extremely minimal.
Just one jpg file per photo. Trivial. If it is like mine, I can scan maybe a thousand negatives, then read the card on the computer, a thousand photo files in a single operation. If it is like mine, I connect the USB cable to the computer, then power up the scanner, which pops up a question on its own display: connect to the computer Y/N? If I answer yes it connects, if I say no it acts as scanner. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
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