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| Thread ID: 103411 | 2009-09-22 04:37:00 | Slides to Digital | thiggy (11892) | PC World Chat |
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| 812683 | 2009-09-22 04:37:00 | My dad died a couple of years ago and my mom asked me and my brother to go through his slides to decide what we would like to keep and discard the rest. My dad was an avid photographer all of his adult life and there are probably thousands of slides. I would like to purchase a scanner to convert his (and my) slides to digital images. There are also lots of negatives that I would like to convert. Looking on the internet, I see that there are lots of choices in photo/slide scanners. The prices range from less than $100 to over $2000. I don't know enough about the process to make an informed decision about what to purchase. Do any of you folks have suggestions about what features I should look for, and do you have any specific recommendations make, model, etc. Thanks | thiggy (11892) | ||
| 812684 | 2009-09-22 04:54:00 | Regardless of which option you go with, be prepared for a time consuming exercise - fun, rewarding, but very time consuming :) Last Christmas I purchased a Canon flat bed scanner that came with a film strip (negative) attachment. It cost me somewhere around the $250 mark, I think. I use Photoshop for all my digital processing. There are other cheaper and suitable programmes available. Good luck :) |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 812685 | 2009-09-22 04:56:00 | I sold my mother a Canon 5600F a few months ago as she wanted to do the same thing. She had about 2000 slides that she wanted to digitise. The 8800F can only scan 4 at a time so it did take a while but the results are awesome. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 812686 | 2009-09-22 05:02:00 | There are quite a number of threads on this topic in this forum. Suggest you do a search for "film scanner", you will find what you want. | tutaenui (1724) | ||
| 812687 | 2009-09-22 06:24:00 | The cheaper scanners may be more grainy and that the dark tones maybe too colluded. This means the flatbed scanners. You can get dedicated scanners like the Nikon Coolscans but $$$. An alternative but less on the quality side is maybe get a light box - where they sort slides on this plastic table thing (A4 size or smaller) and you can use a macro lens and take the photo or do it over a desk lamp etc behind a white piece of paper. I have a scanner and I am a avid photographer. I still shoot film but I only scan the film in low resolution like 1024 to preview in auto settings because it just takes too long time to scan, one photograph could be 50MB, to get a good scan, you scan it and then you need to touch it up etc .. you may scan it with dust spots and hair spots .... that you need to clean up. Maybe use noise reducdtion software and a color balance, sharpen etc.... So I just scan high reso for the few that I intend to work on. After a trip, I may scan 15 pix only. 15 is for small prints and a few for larger prints. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 812688 | 2009-09-22 08:09:00 | I've projected the slide onto the screen, put the digi camera on a tripod with a remote and away I went. Again, time consuming, but acceptable results. It wouldn't do for competition work, but for memories, priceless! Have fun. :clap | R.M. (561) | ||
| 812689 | 2009-09-22 08:12:00 | I've projected the slide onto the screen, put the digi camera on a tripod with a remote and away I went. Again, time consuming, but acceptable results. It wouldn't do for competition work, but for memories, priceless! Have fun. :clap X2 for this method if it's just for the memories |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 812690 | 2009-09-22 10:37:00 | I've projected the slide onto the screen, put the digi camera on a tripod with a remote and away I went. Again, time consuming, but acceptable results. It wouldn't do for competition work, but for memories, priceless! Have fun. :clap +3 for this method. I did this two years ago and the results are very good - more than just "acceptable". It did take time to get the focus and screen aligned but then the process went at a good pace. BTW, I did purchase a new scanner with 35mm attachment but I found it too slow as I had 9 boxes of slides. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 812691 | 2009-09-22 10:52:00 | I've projected the slide onto the screen, put the digi camera on a tripod with a remote and away I went. Again, time consuming, but acceptable results. It wouldn't do for competition work, but for memories, priceless! Have fun. :clap Wasn't at all impressed with the results. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 812692 | 2009-09-22 11:07:00 | The results I had were so good that I printed some of the photos (at Warehouse Stationary) and gave them to family members - some are still displayed in their homes. Two of the images even appeared on TV1's Close Up last year - yep true. It did take fiddling around to get a good image. In the end I used the 'manual' focus setting and a small screen only 1.5 meters away from the camera/projector. Needless to say, the flash was turned off, LOL. |
Strommer (42) | ||
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