For the past few years, we have been working on digitizing our image
collection on yakimamemory.org.  On the site, under the Project, we have
information about our scanner.  We scanned glass negatives, negatives,
prints, lantern slide, etc. with wonderful results.  The 35mm slides were
always a little blurry.  The scanner was in the lid.

I think if I was to do this again, I would just get a separate 35mm slide
scanner.  They can be expensive.. But if you shop around...

We scanned the original images at 600dpi and 300dpi.  Now we are only doing
300 dpi.  600dpi was too slow to scan, and 300dpi was what publishers wish
for.

Now I am looking at a new Epson scanner.  After a few years, our scanner
glass is getting foggy.

> I am looking for advice on which of two scanners to purchase for our
> historical society.  We will be scanning photographs, negatives, and slides
> for archival purposes to retire the originals as well as to sell prints to
> researchers.  We had two computer consultants work up quotes for us, but
> they each choose totally different equipment.  The choice for the two
> scanners are either a lower resolution scanner with a seprate tray for
> slides, negatives, etc (1200x2400 dpi) or a scanner with a higher
> resolution but with the adapter in the lid (3200x6400dpi).  Which is more
> important, the tray or the higher resolution?  I would be grateful for any
> advice on this topic.
>
> Katherine McLeister
> Theatre Historical Society of America
>
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