| Using OVT Scanner | mwoodyf | 2/14/09 9:01 AM | I'm using an OVT Scanner to digitize slides on a Vista laptop. How many slides can Picasa3 import at one time? I could orginally only import 100 at a time on Picasa2. After I downloaded Picasa3 yesterday I no longer get thumbnail views on the Impo |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | tom.ohaver | 2/14/09 2:41 PM | No wisdom here. It looks like you're doing the best that can be expected under those circumstances. Ordinarily, I prefer to use a scanner's own software when scanning, rather than the generic TWAIN driver that Picasa uses; I just save the scans in |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | echoch1 | 2/16/09 12:15 PM | Mwoodyf, Can you tell us what driver you're using. I've been working with this scanner that I've gotten from Hammacher Schlemmer and it shows up as the OVT on device manager. I can't tell what model it is, and it appears that vupoint has an xp onl |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | mwoodyf | 2/16/09 2:37 PM | Eric--The driver is classified as OVT X86. Mine came with the scanner from Brookstone. Brookstone advised me about three weekas ago when they sent me another disc that it was the latest so I would have assumed it was Vista capable. I found a websi |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | rwspiegel | 2/17/09 5:15 AM | Hi folks, Thanks for ideas with Picasa. I have Vista, purchased my OVT from Brookstone, and had the same results - no worky. Now with Picasa I can acquire. However, the contrast is poor; typically, scans are over exposed, and I loose both the bright |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | mwoodyf | 2/17/09 6:38 AM | My pic results in Picasa are similar to the original PhotoImpressions 6 program on my old Windows XP computer.. I'm not sure why the program decides to do what you describe. Mine react the same way. Then there are slides that start out dark and it |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | rwspiegel | 2/19/09 5:45 PM | mwoodyf- thanks. that is encouraging. i think i'll keep the OVT and play with it longer. i also talked to my photographer friend who does this for a living (she's a professional). she has lots of professional quality slides and scanned versions of th |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | mwoodyf | 2/19/09 6:55 PM | Rolfe You might also try to "spruce up" the digitized slides in "Windows Photo Galary" after trying them in PICASA. So far the bulk of my digitizing has been family pics of which most of them are from my oldest camera and taken with the old flash b |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | JC_spotless | 2/21/09 8:51 AM | I have been experimenting with Veho Slide scanner. The drivers which came with software are next to useless (i'm currently using XP). As as been stated above scan time are high and give poor image quality. I found the best results using XP default t |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | mwoodyf | 3/7/09 9:04 AM | I have just stumbled on an answer to the major wahed-out results of the digitizing of slides. I open Picasa and ask for OVT to import the slides. The OVT Scanner comes on and the left view of the Scanner view gets somewhat dark in ateps. I have be |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | Don80465 | 3/7/09 10:41 PM | I have been having the same problems and have decided to use a company to do it for me. Its going to cost a couple hundred dollars but will save much time and frustration. I have found several one the internet, |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | mwoodyf | 3/9/09 6:46 PM | The procedure I've devoloped is to put two slides in each tray. I have four trays. I wait for the View area to get dark and do the first slide. Then I move the tray to the "open" middle slot and wait for the view area to get dark. That's when I m |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | A s K | 3/11/09 3:01 PM | At http://www.ovt.com/support/usbdownloads.asp there are USB driver downloads available for the manufacturers different CCD sensors. Not particularly for this slide / negative scanner. I have no idea if it can actually damage the CCD sensor. I guess |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | eblong | 6/26/09 7:09 PM | I mastered the OVT scanner, thanks to all of your help - A s K gave the real breakthrough. Here's what I did: 1. I downloaded and installed the "ECF Modules (OV530)" file (file name is OV530(AV301P)LogodSetupv1_0.zip). This installs a program nam |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | ojchome | 8/3/09 8:35 PM | Hi all I have a Brookstone scanner and I also have the same problem of over exposure. I have noticed that indoor flash pics are worse then outdoor ones, as the falsh is more concentrated in the middle of the shot. I have a Canon flatbed scanner th |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | tom.ohaver | 8/4/09 5:06 AM | I too had thousands of 35mm slides from the last 40 year or so. What I finally did was to but an HP Scanjet 4050, because it can scan 16 mounted 2"x2" in one pass. I use HP scanner software to perform the scanning, rather than Picasa's Import, and |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | mwoodyf | 8/4/09 6:28 AM | to ojchome, Please read my comments of 3-08-09 and 3-10-09. You might find it helpful to speed up the whole process. I too did find that flash pics were worse than otheres but using the procedure I describe significantly improves the results--in m |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | spoleweski | 8/18/09 5:29 PM | @ eblong I am using photoshop instead of Paint Shop Pro like you used. My problem is it only imports at 72dpi into photoshop. How can you get it to import at 200dpi or more instead? |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | ojchome | 8/18/09 8:39 PM | I do not know how to change the imput file size I access the scanner thru - File / Import / OVT Scanner. When the copy screen comes up there is a 'format' button. Mine comes up with a resolution of 2592 x 1680, which also cannot be changed. Sorry I |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | ojchome | 8/18/09 8:45 PM | to mwoodyf I haven't forgotten you I will try your method when I get going again! With summer here I spend my time in working in my yard and garden, except on rainy days which we had a lot of earlier, that is when I did my original posting |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | spoleweski | 8/19/09 7:31 AM | @ ojchrome I know what you mean. You can only choose one option when you click 'format.' The resolution is good, just not the dpi which seems to be fixed at 72dpi. May try to see if I can change the pre-set preferences in photoshop to see if that do |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | fotoaction | 7/2/10 3:39 AM | Hi, I have been using photoshop since the first version and OVT X86 works fine - if you want a free programme that also works and has many fine enhancements try IRFANVIEW - I have also been using that with great success with OVY X86 |
| Re: Using OVT Scanner | johnms | 10/16/10 4:46 AM | I too purchased one of these scanners and experienced all the problems described when trying to use it on my Vista based laptop. I then tried it on my wife's XP based desktop. It worked fine if a little slowly - but not unacceptably so. Then I had |