Scanning slides,negs etc

Ey up, just bought myself a shiny new scanner today and thought Id have a go at scanning a few slides, first result the slide came out at less than a mb second one was going to be nearly 5 Gb so was just wondering what everyone else uses file size wise. I know most of you are probably digital photographers but if anyone can give me some hints that would be great thanks.

I don't have a film scanner myself, but perhaps try to getting one at about 10MB and taking it from there?

Look forward to seeing them

hope you can work this out stewie as im also looking into buying a scanner looking forward to result

Yeah me too, been doing a bit of reading tonite, gonna give it go tomorrow and see what happens, fingers crossed

Well, spent the best part of the mornin trying to work out the best scanning resolutions etc... in the end I stuck it on full auto mode and its giving me file sizes in the region of 6-8mb,s which is sufficient for archiving I suppose, in fact it was a bit too efficient, I didnt realise how dusty my slides were ! although I did one side by side with dust removal on and off and it makes a big difference, now to resize them for upload.

Was thinking of getting a scanner that scans slides etc, which did you decided on stewie, if you don't mind me asking?

I just bought a an Epson V500, its a flatbed scanner capable of up to 6400 dpi and comes with Elements 4.0, Im just trying to get to terms with it cos if I scan at 100% with a resolution of 6400 dpi Im getting a file size in excess of 4.57GB ! so I just stuck it on auto mode and Im getting decent results that run out at 6-8 Mb,s which is ideal for archiving I suppose. HTH.

Yeah thanks Stewie, Hope you can work it out! Then if I get the same one you can tell me how it works! lol

Yep no prob, as long as I can work it myself !