Recent content by Ploughboy

Yes, that may be thw way to go. Thanks to everyone again. I appreciate all your help.

I am warming to that idea. Ideally a stand-alone unit that lays the images onto an SD card I think.

Yes, sorry, wasn't thinking properly. The slides that we have (taken by Father-in-Law) are 34mm x 22mm. I'm not sure that I can be more explicit about a "decent" photograph. The photographs that I have that were processed from the same film at the time aren't brilliant but then the sort of...

Yes, but my point was that my Epson is, as far as I can tell, a perfectly good scanner so I can't see why I would want an additional scanner in the form of a flat bed machine after I've finished scanning my negatives and slides. Unless of course a flat bed machine is a better option for my...

Thank you for that. At the risk of sounding a total ignoramus what would I be likely to use a good flatbed scanner for that I can't do with my Epson XP900 printer/scanner ?

Thank you for that. Thought that was probably the best route but I thought that some scanners that I have seen possessed an elementary editing function.

Thank you again. I think I'm leaning towards the purpose built scanner. With the quantity that I am proposing to do I think it will be quicker. Are you able to edit on a scanner or is it always going to be better putting them into PSE to get the photo after scanning the negative/slide ?

Thank you.

Thank you everybody for your quick responses. I appreciate that. I am looking on eBay because I know that when I have scanned my 300-400 negatives and slides I will probably never use it again. And thank you all for your recommendations. I will investigate. I also appreciate the advice re : DSLR...

Total newbie here to the Forum. I wonder if I could ask for some advice please ? I wish to digitise some old negatives (some are 90-100 years old) plus some slides. I am reasonably proficient with PSE but only as far as things like cloning, cropping, photomerging, etc. etc. But I am struggling...