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I'd be interested in knowing what scanner you use and what dpi you're scanning at.

I have a few galeries I scanned with an Epson Perfection 2450 Photo. That's a flatbed scanner with a built-in tranparency adapter (light in cover). I used mostly 2400dpi, I think. The results are OK for a flatbed, but it's not a real a film scanner.

Here's a gallery from old B&W negatives:

http://www.pbase.com/plbh/flores_1970

Here are a couple galleries from slides:

http://www.pbase.com/plbh/africa_2001


http://www.pbase.com/plbh/yvoire1984

I just bought a Microtek Scanmaker i320 (6400X3200 dpi ccd 48 bit color).

My intentions were to buy a cheap scanner for nothing more than to scan a history of both B&W and color photos. I had no intentios of using it professionally, but I'll tell ya, this thing does a pretty nice job, And I paid under $150.00. This unit came with quick fix programs that makes Photoshop unnecessary unless you want to get real technical.

Black & White image 40+ years old



Color image 30+years old

I bought a used Hewlett Packard S20 film scanner and I scan at 1200 or 2400 dpi. I think the 2400 may be best for me and my images are then about 50K (give or take) after compressing for PBase.

I have a gallery of scanned images (slides and negatives) <A HREF="http://www.pbase.com/steveandbecky/scanned_images">here</A>.
I have scanned some 35 mm negatives of butterflies and you can see them in <A HREF="http://www.pbase.com/steveandbecky/butterflies">in this gallery</A>.

The biggest problem that I have had is with the dust specks on the old slides. I found that I can use the "noise" filter in PSE in some instances to remove the offending particles in just a couple of minutes.