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Title: Can you scan slides on a flatbed scanner?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on December 17, 2002, 03:43:02 AM

I have seen this done on a Cannon ad on TV. It looked like a normal flatbed scanner that the guy was using to scan some slides.

Can this be done? If so, how? Does the lid have to be up, or down, or up a bit?

Title: Can you scan slides on a flatbed scanner?
Post by: Tyrant on December 17, 2002, 03:52:12 AM

unfortunately u cannot scan slides with a normal flatbed scanner, u\'ll need a special type of scanner like the Acer 620st Prisa (its old but is still great at scanning -ves, slides etc...).

Title: Can you scan slides on a flatbed scanner?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on December 17, 2002, 03:56:07 AM

I have a Hewlett Packard, its only new, so if mine can do it, how would you go about it?

Title: Can you scan slides on a flatbed scanner?
Post by: Tyrant on December 17, 2002, 04:18:50 AM

racer in order to scan a slide u need to have an additional light soucre.
like for example in the acer 620st their is a clearbox with some tube lights under the lid.

Title: Can you scan slides on a flatbed scanner?
Post by: videoholic on December 17, 2002, 04:23:33 AM

Put a light behind the slide.  Bam...  You have to scan it at very high rez too since the pic is so small.

Many scanners come with a light source.

Title: Can you scan slides on a flatbed scanner?
Post by: kopking on December 17, 2002, 02:17:03 PM

im sure ive seen scanners, tha also come with a extra part, that is used for scanning slides

Title: Can you scan slides on a flatbed scanner?
Post by: Kurt Angle on December 17, 2002, 02:20:42 PM

the epson perfection photo series does it.

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Title: Can you scan slides on a flatbed scanner?
Post by: ##RaCeR## on December 17, 2002, 02:38:18 PM

So, you just need a very bright light source on top of the slide whilest the scanner is scanning it?

Title: Can you scan slides on a flatbed scanner?
Post by: kopking on December 17, 2002, 03:00:52 PM

yeah thats the little thingy

Title: Can you scan slides on a flatbed scanner?
Post by: guar on December 17, 2002, 03:47:48 PM

My microtek 4800 scanmaker comes with a lightbar which you attach to the scanner after taking off the lid. This allows you to scan negatives and slides. Imo the output isn\'t all that great but then again it\'s not that expensive of a scanner.

Title: Can you scan slides on a flatbed scanner?
Post by: Coredweller on December 17, 2002, 03:52:27 PM

I have another Microtek scanner that has the same attachment.  The quality of the resulting scans is crappy, but it\'s ok if you only need to make low res images.  (You scan in the highest scanner resolution possible, and the resulting image is still pretty small).  Also, you can\'t hardly see the scan preview, so you can\'t make effective color adjustments before the final scan.