Scanning 35mm slides solutions?

leaskovski

leaskovski

leaskovski

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Hi people,

The folks have been asking me if it is possible to scan 35mm slides so that we can get them into digital format with the aim of knocking up some CDs. Some of the slides are very old and hold some real value to the family so a non desctructive method is what we want here.

So has anyone had any experience of doing this or can recommend a place to get this done?

Thanks
:)
 
I've used a cheap slide duplicator from an auction site and with a bit of fiddling to sort out the issue of a crop body made a good quality simple solution to mass copying
 
I have an old epson scanner which had a negatives/slide scanner attachment. This is basically a different lid which has a backlight to shine through the negs, and then a slot to insert frames(supplied) which hold the slides/film. The actual model I doubt you'll be able to find, but current ones available should be similar I imagine.

An example. Pretty poor quality photo I admit. I think it could come out a lot better.

I think it can do higher DPI and bit depth than this scan too.

MONSTER DEMO IMAGE:
http://e.imagehost.org/view/0641/george_image_copy
 
I had a lot of mine done by Peak Imaging.
Made a very good job of them to be honest. Cost about £1-20 per slide though, and that was a while back now so could be more.
 
I use a dedicated minolta Dimage scan dual III, which only cost me about £70, it does both negatives and slides, and does a damn good job. I also use a Nikon coolscan V ED which is slightly better than the minolta but not by much, the images produced are just much larger. The minolta runs at 2820 dpi the nikon is 4000 dpi.

A sample from the nikon... Shrunk to fit, the original was 19 megapixels (26mb jpeg)

Full-Squirrel.jpg

Full Size slide
Crop-Squirrel.jpg

100% crop
 
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ok, im thinking that we either buy one from the bay and then stick it back on once we have finished, or buy a new one fromsctrach and then put it on the bay. The quality in the above example is very good.
 
As a quick suggestion, I would look at one with some form of dust detection. Minolta called it ICE, I don't recall what the other manufacturers called it.

Those images posted are dusty and need some work to make them cleaner. ICE takes a lot of time out of scanning.
 
That scan was using a nikon coolscan V (LS-50) which has ICE 3. I tested the scanner with and without ice and found that ice sapped some of the detail from the final image along with the dust spots. Since then i have not bothered with it, unless the film is in very poor condition. I simply havent had the time to remove the dust from my scans. But i do agree it can be a useful feature unless your primary medium is black and white film, since it gets confused by all the silver halide grain.
 
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