I finally just gave in and purchased a Nikon Coolscan V ED. I’ve been fighting with scanning a bunch of 110 slides for three days now, and thus far I’ve been having mixed results with my flatbed scanner and a copy of Vuescan.
After checking prices on eBay and seeing that these scanners regularly sell for near $500, I figure I can spend the $550 to buy a new one, scan a bunch of stuff, then sell it. On top of the 600-some 110 slides my parents have from the 70s and 80s, I have a bunch of 35mm slides I want to scan (similar to these (photo gallery retired)) which I hope the Coolscan V ED does better than my flatbed did.
Oh, and there are a whole bunch more 35mm negatives in the basement from my grandparents… < sigh > This will likely be a big project.
I really didn’t want to spend this much on them, but at this point my choices are to either scan the slides for viewing then re-scan them in the future, or scan them at the best quality I can realistically do and call it done. Or, as done as possible with current decent technology. Since some of the Kodachrome slides of my parents are starting to get the typical red tint to them, I think they need to get digitally archived sooner than later, too.
