[wildman]

I was thinking of a batch scanner like the Pacific Imaging 5,000 or 3650 for the slides and then using a flatbed (like the V600 or V750) for the rest. It seems folks buy batch scanners for jobs like mine and then resell them.

I wonder if batch scanning would work? At least for me most of my material is so varied in quality that each scan is a one of a kind deal to get it really right. Perhaps batch scanning would work if you have high quality stuff of a consistent quality. I know I don't.

Straight simple scan of an old print from 1946. With some PP it looks better printed out than the original.
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Last edited by wildman; 03-22-2012 at 01:57 AM.

[torpesco]

I wonder if batch scanning would work? At least for me most of my material is so varied in quality that each scan is a one of a kind deal to get it really right. Perhaps batch scanning would work if you have high quality stuff of a consistent quality. I know I don't.

I don't know about other software, but with VueScan, and a scanner that could only do one frame at a time, batch scanning let me scan (say) a full roll of film, frame by frame, to an intermediary stage, apply a set of defaults, and then go through and adjust the settings as necessary for each photo before exporting them all to the final format.