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On Fri, 29 Apr 2011, Neil Winchurst wrote:
tom wrote:Thanks for the idea Tom. I have had a look around Google for slide scanning and prices are stupid. I can't justify the cost. I could ask at the local film club perhaps. Otherwise I think that I will just forget about it.On 29/04/11 08:36, Neil Winchurst wrote:Adrian Midgley wrote:You can rephotograph them The slide holder goes on the front of a lens, and you get good resolution quickly. http://www.srbfilm.co.uk/ make themI had thought of that, but three problems. A slide copier can be as expensive as a scanner. I am not sure that I can get one to fit my Canon camera. I wish to scan other items not just slides. Thanks anyway NeilSlides is very high definition compared to your ordinary scanner you want at least 4096 dpi to do them justice - take a few of your best along to a shop that will demo a scanned and look very closely at the images taken, and then look at the slide under a microscope - or blown up to 8' or larger and compare. Then see if you can borrow a camera adapter(and camera) - after all you?re not going to be using it once you've finished this lot. A local photo group may help...Or buy one and rent it out.. Tom te tom te tom
It's all to do with time - Search eBay for a Nikon slide scanner - there are ones that you can load-up with 50 slides at a time and (with VueScan) off you go.
I found it was taking 5-15 minutes to do each slide - by the time I'd scanned it, then imported the 35MB TIFF file into GIMP, to do final colour, scratch/dust removal/sharpening, etc. (and re-save as a TIFF)
You can obviously scan and save a lot quicker if you don't hand-tweak the images.
Negatives are a bigger PITA - I have a negative holder for my scanner, but it's still fiddly, needing air dusters, cotton gloves, etc. to not get prints on them.
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