I have scanned almost 1,000,000 slides and negatives and submitted most of
them to stock agencies. As far as I'm concerned, there is nothing better
than the Nikon LS 5000 with the SF210 bulk loader. You can load about 50
slides in the bulk loader, as long as they have the same settings as far as
film type, exposure, etc, and go off and do something else until they are
finished. I use Vuescan as the software. The dust removal in Vuescan is
very good.
I've got a Besseler slide duplicator and have tried doing the in-camera
dupes with both my Canon and my Leica cameras. It's convenient for one
slide that you have to have in a hurry; otherwise, you have to sit there
feeding the slides into the holder and taking the photos. You cannot go
off and expect the slides to dupe themselves! And then you have to remove
the dust and scratches in LR!
You can find the LS5000 and the SF210 on EBay at bargain prices. I would
not even think about any other method.
Hope this helps.
Tina
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Unlike that toy store that has four feet to the sky, my business is
> actually profitable. It may not be very much (and it isn't very much),
> but it is profitable. The net profit is measured in Hamiltons, but at
> least it is measurable.
>
> One reason? Stock photography is finally starting to pay off again.
> While it has always been a numbers game, I think that it is even more
> so now than ever before. You can't stick one or two outstanding images
> up there and get sales. You have to stick one or two HUNDRED images up
> there with the one or two outstanding ones hidden in there somewhere.
> The sold images will always be the same ones, but you have to pad them
> with a lot of similars and other stuff to push the other people's
> images to the side.
>
> It was a lot different when stock libraries were curated. When the
> entire library was measured in thousands of images, not hundreds of
> millions of images. Now you just have to have 20 images of the exact
> same thing just so one of the images is seen. It's frustrating on one
> hand, but liberating on the other. The hardest part (which I struggle
> with) is the keywording.
>
> Anyway, back to the subject...
>
> I've finally reached the point where it makes financial sense to go
> back through the file cabinet and scan the library. I've only done
> selects, not the entire thing. Seriously, there has to be a better way
> than burning the poor Nikon scanner up. But, it works and I can do
> other stuff while the scanner is chugging away. At the moment, I'm
> down to 2:10 per scan. I don't have to do anything other than dust the
> slide off, shove it in the slot and pull it out just over two minutes
> later. Vuescan is set up where I don't even have to press any buttons.
> All I have to do is import the folder (and/or resync) in Lightroom.
>
> I'm thinking about using the 6D for scanning. That might work pretty
> well, but then I would spend the same amount of time spotting the
> images of dust. But that is a trade-off that may be just fine as I
> have to do some spotting anyway. Vuescan does have the advantage of
> auto correcting exposure at time of scan. It does a preview where it
> determines the max exposure to apply, gets the focus point and then
> performs the 4000dpi scan. The dust spotting algorithm in Vuescan is
> finally good enough that it even does an acceptable job on
> Kodachromes. (Darker scans that need more exposure will take longer to
> scan).
>
> It has taken a LONG time to get my Vuescan/Lightroom workflow under
> control, but it now works very well. There is a part of me that says
> to go ahead and buy a Nikon 5000 with the stacker and sell it after I
> melt the library down. I'd probably continue to keep the V-ED or sell
> it and keep the 5000 so I can run entire rolls non-stop.
>
> So, the question is this: Do I get a 5000 to scan the library? Or do I
> get a slide duplication fixture and a macro lens for the Canon? Or do
> I go an entirely different direction? All said and done, I've got
> about 30,000 slides that need scanning, not including the thousands of
> negs.
>
> AG Schnozz
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