Like many photo-geeks from the seventies and eighties, I probably have a couple thousand 35mm slides. As time passes of course, they get scratched, fade etc. Scanning them is often an expensive and tedious process. The required resolution makes the process slow. However, if you only need "Facebook" or Web-quality images, there's a cheap and quick way; The Optex Scanner is not really a scanner at all, but rather it's a 5 megapixel digital camera that takes pictures of slides. Knowing its limitations, I bought one anyway. Adding to the decision was the fact that it was half-price, $59.99 instead of $119.98. It also "scans" negatives, but I have yet to try that.
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| Unit with both Slide and Negative holders... |
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| ...with negatives inserted... |
This thing is fast too. In about a minute, I can have three slides transferred to the computer. A couple of examples below, with more
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HERE. This thing gets poor reviews, but I love it. It's not a thousand dollar scanner...you get what you pay for :)
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