I know this is a little off topic but it is, sort of, aviation related.
Does anyone know anything about the process of scanning microfilm to CD-ROM? I have an ORB on 35mm microfilm which is desperatley needed for my research. However, I can only book two hour slots to use the microfilm reader at my local history centre, and, the price of a new film reader is prohibitive and second hand ones with image rotation are as rare as hens teeth.
So, Has anyone got any ideas? I have seen scanning offered at 10p per image and I have approximately 3,000 pages of ORB. I admit to being a bit worried about sending the film off to anyone without knowing much about it first.
Any help or advice would, as ever, be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
kev35
By: kev35 - 27th March 2004 at 20:55
Rob.
Sounds interesting. I’ll get back to you. Re the photo’s what dates are you free? We’ll have to sort something out.
Regards, kev35
By: kev35 - 27th March 2004 at 20:18
Hi, Ross.
Thanks for that. Could you please explain a bit more about how you do that? (Confirmed technophobe and general idiot here) The biggest pressure on me doing that is time and storage and probably expense. For printing a single sheet they charge 50p so it looks like it could be expensive. Ideally if I could transfer to CD then I can have the two PC’s running side by side.
Regards,
kev35
By: Ross_McNeill - 27th March 2004 at 20:08
Hi Kev,
In the early days before I got a reader I used to individually cut out each image and mount it in a 35mm slide carrier (approx 200 per ORB).
Took ages but then I could use a standard slide projector to display the pages (4 foot by 4 foot screen).
Regards
Ross
By: Eddie - 27th March 2004 at 15:21
Kev – see if you can go to a Photo shop and try a negative scanner. Some of the better ones give a high enough resolution to scan microfilm. Takes a long time though 😉
By: kev35 - 27th March 2004 at 15:07
Nice try kittyhawk, but only ships in US. I know we’re almost the 51st State, but not quite yet.;)
Thanks for trying though, it is appreciated.
Regards,
kev35
By: kittyhawk - 27th March 2004 at 14:51
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3805436288&category=61673 here ya go, $99 USD;)
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