Will this item scan the thicker carboard mounted slides and will it work with the glass mounted slides?
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Did work with about 700 old cardboard slides I had. No experience with glass slides. The device is a little fragile, and requires patience to fit and use.
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It definitely scans cardboard mounted slides. I have no advice on glass mounted slides.
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The scanner is capable of scanning them, the problem is you will need to make a special holder for the negatives. 126 slides are no problem.
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Mounted works fine. The holder will contain three slides. If you get the orientation wrong, it's easy to correct. Quality of scan? Hard to say. I did not have the best camera for most of my slide shooting.
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Agree with BigBadBalrog - it works fine with mounted slides. But, it is a one at a time process. We have mostly used the scanner for 35mm negatives and that works well as long as the film piece is long enough - otherwise you need to insert the negative in a holder (included).
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No, Kathleen, your slides won't be damaged in any way and this scanner does a good job. I was real satisfied with the negatives I scanned also and glad I ordered the negative carriers when I ordered the slide carriers.
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I'm not sure which "other" kind of slides you're referring to. It works with the standard 35mm slides.
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It will only handle 2 x2 slides. I also use an adapter that will hold loose 2 x 2 slides. What other slides were you trying to use?
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No, this is not a slide scanner. That takes a special machine with a much higher resolution and brighter light. Search for "slide scanner" on Amazon, and you'll see several choices. They are scanner made specifically for scanning slides. Good luck.
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Only manually from the glass. One side then the other. Thick items from glass can be scanned. Yes there is hinge flexibility to accomodate thinker items for flatbed scanning.
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I cannot say if it will fit or not. But be aware, neither cardboard or glass mounted slides will fit in the holder. You'll have to un-mount the slide and use only the film in order to use it with standard 35mm slides.-
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No it doesn't scan slides. It only scans photos but now the end result shows a faint line across every photo scanned. This was cited as a problem that other users have had as well.
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The scanning quality is excellent (max = 600dpi). I have not tried to scan in negatives, but the scanning that i did perform caught sufficient detail i would suspect it would be fine. As for slides, that is a different question, as they are in the cardboard; i don't know if that will mess with the focus (being off the glass). Scanning resolution: Max = 600dpi in Jpeg or Tiff. I will run a negative through the scanner hopefully tonight and will let you know for sure.
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Yes; most slides I scanned have had 1/4" cardboard on the left & right sides, 1/2" cardboard on top & bottom. I scanned around 30 slides from the 1950s with 1/4" cardboard on all 4 sides & they all scanned fine.
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Yes, it is designed to work with most 35mm 2"x2" slides. It is not a huge screen, but is a very good size for working with slides and seeing what is on them, even reading relatively small text on items on the slide for identification, dating, sorting, and other things. It is quite compact. I am using mine to convert something like 10,000+ slides to digital format, culling out those that are very close copies or not good enough to warrant digitizing. I had two other viewers I bought in 1971 or 1972. They were somewhat better overall, but I misplaced them. I am happy with my Kaiser. It easily handles cardboard, thin plastic, and thick plastic 2"x2" slides. I do not know if it handles the really thick glass slides. Hope that helps.
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It works fine for mounted slides, I helped my dad copy several thousand of them. A couple of things to be aware of...different mounting frames will fit differently into the slot, you may need to adjust different frames to display the most image. Of course, you can only do one slide at a time, so the process can be tedious. Consider getting an SD card to load into the scanner so you can store the images on it, leaving you free to display the unit on a tv...this will give you a good image to work with as well as allowing words in the pictures to be more visible thereby insuring you get correct orientation. Finally, get a can of compressed air so you can periodically blow dust out of the scanner...old slides tend to be dirty. Good luck
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If the 120 slide is the small one I'm thinking of, but the border is the same size as a regular side, then it's no problem. The slide adapter that comes with scanner if for slides whose cardboard or plastic border is 2x2 inches. If not, them I'm not sure. I've done some creative things with odd size negatives, and got away with it.
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I know it did not scan the old studio portraits I have of my ancesters, taken years ago. The cardboard material of those is not thin enough to pass through the scanner, maybe because it is curved. It may be the same for mounted slides, though I did not try any of my mounted slides. Sorry, that's all the help I can give.