Converting Slides to Digital "on the cheap": Looking for some advice on how best to convert slides to digital. Very old slides but in good shape. Also would like to do so without...

Kleinlib Loc: Georgetown, KY

Looking for some advice on how best to convert slides to digital. Very old slides but in good shape. Also would like to do so without "breaking the bank". Guessing I have about 800 to 1000 slides to convert.
Any advice would be much appreciated.

jim quist Loc: Missouri

A lot of this type on the market. ranging in price from about 100.00 to the thousands of dollars

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1018538-REG/wolverine_f2d20super_super_f2d_4_in_1_film.html

In the film days there was an attachment that fit on the end of a lens and you could put your slide in it and copy it to film. I dont know where to find one but that is the way I would go if I could.

Kleinlib Loc: Georgetown, KY

Thanks for the quick response...I will check out the link.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

jim quist wrote:

A lot of this type on the market. ranging in price from about 100.00 to the thousands of dollars

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1018538-REG/wolverine_f2d20super_super_f2d_4_in_1_film.html

In the film days there was an attachment that fit on the end of a lens and you could put your slide in it and copy it to film. I dont know where to find one but that is the way I would go if I could.

I agree, a slide copier on a bellows would be definitely the cheapest way to do this (if you own one already), but the picture quality would leave a lot to be desired. A film scanner is best (but expensive). You could send your slides to ScanCafe and have them do it for you (their price is around $0.21 per slide) as another option.

Quixdraw Loc: x

I will be posting some samples of slide copies just made -- "Quick Slide Copies, One Method"

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

jim quist wrote:

A lot of this type on the market. ranging in price from about 100.00 to the thousands of dollars

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1018538-REG/wolverine_f2d20super_super_f2d_4_in_1_film.html

In the film days there was an attachment that fit on the end of a lens and you could put your slide in it and copy it to film. I dont know where to find one but that is the way I would go if I could.

That's clever, and most users seems to like it. For a hundred more, an Epson 500/600 would scan the slides and everything else.

http://www.amazon.com/Epson-Perfection-Negative-Document-Scanner/dp/B002OEBMRU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448997218&sr=8-1&keywords=epson+v600

MrBob Loc: lookout Mtn. NE Alabama

Not that many years ago I grappled with the same problem having a good portion of my life on a lot of carousels of Kodachrome and Fujichrome. I purchased a higher end Minolta Dimage scan elite 5400 dedicated slide scanner which for some reason never made it out of the box.... Just recently I got it out of the box and will attempt this winter to scan some of these slides. I will post my results when that happens.... This was a highly rated scanner and maybe you could find it used online etc...

mallen1330 Loc: Chicago western suburbs

Kleinlib wrote:

... Also would like to do so without "breaking the bank". ...

I bought a Wolverine F2D 4-in-1 for $85 at Costco.

Here's some examples (reduced in size for the web) from 40 year old slides....

https://www.flickr.com/photos/allenteam/albums/72157657774382955

and b&w film:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/allenteam/albums/72157660367031279

Nikonist Loc: Ellensburg WA

If you have a macro/micro capable lens then you can satisfy "on the cheap." If you want to get one, here's an excuse.
This is what I did: http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-296208-1.html#4997551

Math78 Loc: Scottsdale, AZ

jim quist wrote:

A lot of this type on the market. ranging in price from about 100.00 to the thousands of dollars

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1018538-REG/wolverine_f2d20super_super_f2d_4_in_1_film.html

I have an earlier version of the Wolverine scanner (F2D-14) which does 14MP jpg's. I bought it on eBay for $40. It is okay, but the scans need a lot of PP and sometimes you need to scan more than once to get a decent image. I eventually just took the slides to a local commercial scanner and got back TIF files for about $0.35 a piece. Better quality and a lot less work. (Example slide from 1975.)

Wolverine scan

(Download)

DigMyPics scan

(Download)

Kleinlib Loc: Georgetown, KY

Math78 wrote:

I have an earlier version of the Wolverine scanner (F2D-14) which does 14MP jpg's. I bought it on eBay for $40. It is okay, but the scans need a lot of PP and sometimes you need to scan more than once to get a decent image. I eventually just took the slides to a local commercial scanner and got back TIF files for about $0.35 a piece. Better quality and a lot less work. (Example slide from 1975.)

Thanks...debating the same...that is having them done outside to get better quality and saving the time.

carl hervol Loc: jacksonville florida

I use a copy stand and macro lens with box and it works great and cost me nothing.

BebuLamar

MrBob wrote:

Not that many years ago I grappled with the same problem having a good portion of my life on a lot of carousels of Kodachrome and Fujichrome. I purchased a higher end Minolta Dimage scan elite 5400 dedicated slide scanner which for some reason never made it out of the box.... Just recently I got it out of the box and will attempt this winter to scan some of these slides. I will post my results when that happens.... This was a highly rated scanner and maybe you could find it used online etc...

You would need a computer running Windows XP to use the software that came with it.

blackest Loc: Ireland

BebuLamar wrote:

You would need a computer running Windows XP to use the software that came with it.

If the scanner is usb, then you can run xp in virtualbox or similar virtual machine it's a few GB of hard drive space and you can pause it and resume later, scanning is a long tedious job so that will be handy.

Kleinlib Loc: Georgetown, KY

Thanks...do you happen to have a picture of your setup?