Papa Bear
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My recent trip to Katahdin got me reminiscing. I first visited Baxter in 1963, then again in June of 1966, staying at Chimney Pond both times.
I was searching around today and just found a set of about 20 Ektachrome slides, not seen in over 40 years, from the 1966 Katahdin trip. Viewing with a little hand viewer would seem to indicate these are still in good condition.
A while back I was looking for some kind of scanner to digitize old slides and photos and came up with these:
Canon CanoScan 8800F Flat Bed scanner (174.95 @ B&H)
Canon CanoScan 4400F Flat Bed scanner (89.95 @ B&H)
The difference between the two models seems to be just in the number of slides you can scan at once, plus the bigger one uses white Leds vs. a Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp in the smaller one. Since there will be a lot of manual work taking slides out of old slide trays anyway, I don't think I need the more expensive model. Can anyone tell me why I really need the bigger one?
Does anyone have any experience with the process, with these models or with something else similar.
Thanks
I was searching around today and just found a set of about 20 Ektachrome slides, not seen in over 40 years, from the 1966 Katahdin trip. Viewing with a little hand viewer would seem to indicate these are still in good condition.
A while back I was looking for some kind of scanner to digitize old slides and photos and came up with these:
Canon CanoScan 8800F Flat Bed scanner (174.95 @ B&H)
Canon CanoScan 4400F Flat Bed scanner (89.95 @ B&H)
The difference between the two models seems to be just in the number of slides you can scan at once, plus the bigger one uses white Leds vs. a Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp in the smaller one. Since there will be a lot of manual work taking slides out of old slide trays anyway, I don't think I need the more expensive model. Can anyone tell me why I really need the bigger one?
Does anyone have any experience with the process, with these models or with something else similar.
Thanks
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