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Obviously it depends a lot on the budget and what kind of quality your mate would be happy with.
The Plusteks are a good choice for good quality (even quite professional quality if it comes with SilverFast, if you really know what you're doing, if you got colour-calibration etc.) but yes you have to manually mount the fucking slides in the tray and advance that by hand.
We're talking about these kind of scanners -
Personally I would do it (invest the time) because the quality slides can offer is worth it (assuming your mate did a good job shooting the actual photos).
A quicker solution is a flatbed-type scanner - you'd still have to mount the slides into these things but can then scan like 15 of them in one go and see which ones are rubbish, only scanning the good ones again with better quality.
In that case I'd go for something like a V700, yes.
Personally I never had great results using these (for slides) but a lot of people do it so maybe it was user error on my end back in the day.Maybe "scanning" with a proper digital camera, tripod, and good light source under the slide is the better option here?
@mi7rennie might have some thoughts on this..
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Mate needs to scan a load of slides and wants to get a scanner. Most are 35mm, but about 10% are 35mm square.
What’s a reasonable scanner?
I know the plusteks are supposed to be ok but I don’t think they’ll scan 35mm square. And it’ll take ages as you have to manually advance each frame, right?
Is the v700 still the go to for a mid range scanner? Is there a more recent version? Just looked online and they’re like £700 now, is that normal?
Cheers!