For Christmas, I asked Mummy and Daddy Father Christmas for a light box, to help me review slides and negatives before printing and scanning. Today’s the first day I’ve had a chance to try it out, and here it is. It’s a box… with a light in. Who’d have thought! It works really well andContinue reading “Light box”
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Reflecta DigitDia 5000 Slide Scanner – Review
I recently inherited a box of around 4,000 film slides and was asked to scan them in. I decided that my existing film/slide scanner, a Veho VFS-001, was not up to the task so I investigated alternatives, and eventually settled on a Reflecta DigitDia 5000 – which is simply a rebadged (and cheaper!) Braun MultimagContinue reading “Reflecta DigitDia 5000 Slide Scanner – Review”
New slide scanner
I’ve been playing with my new slide scanner. The typical image quality is demonstrated below. The colours are nice but unfortunately I can’t seem to get it to work at full resolution. I’ll keep plodding on. Worse yet, the auto-loader isn’t particularly good at all – the screenshot below shows the tray of 50 slidesContinue reading “New slide scanner”
Grandad, my mum and my uncle in Florence
This photo was taken in 1973. I’ve uploaded to demonstrate the quality of the Veho 35mm slide scanner I used.