1Feathercrest Loc: NEPA

I have many transparencies from 60 + years ago. Can I recover the images (myself) to paper, or do I need a professional shop?

MT Shooter Loc: Montana

Just by a scanner, then scan the images to digital and print them on your photo printer

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Yes, there are many good scanners available. I use the Epson 750V. It has color restoration that is wonderful for old slides and Digital ICE that rmoves dust and other flaws. It works great too.
From there you can print as many copies as you wish from the digital file

Nymphadora

I use that little $120 Wolverine unit, the F2D Mighty. It does 35mm, 127, 110, 16mm and 8mm movie stills, negatives and positives, b&w and colour. But it doesn't do any 120, or my antique Kodak 127 long formats without cropping. I just use my light table and a Nikon d60, and for 4x5 as well. I do all adjustments in Photoshop. This is the only scanner I've had that didn't conk out on me... All my flatbeds died too soon.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

ScanCafe does a great job cleaning and scanning slides, but they charge around $0.40 per slide for 35mm. Or, --

http://www.howtogeek.com/213859/how-to-go-digital-and-get-your-old-physical-media-onto-your-pc/
http://opteka.com/slidecopier.aspx
http://www.scancafe.com/services/slide-scanning

The advantage of have them scanned professionally is they clean them and adjust the color - the red cast that develops over the years. You can preview the slides before they charge you and eliminate a certain percentage. Then they let you download the final scans while you are waiting for the DVD to arrive.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Nymphadora

Actually, mine is this one.... Another thing, the footprint is only about 6x6 inches... Nyms
https://www.amazon.com/Wolverine-Mighty-20MP-Digital-Converter/dp/B00O46B7TY/ref=dp_ob_title_ce

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

THANKS !

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

I looked up the specifications of that device and it DOES say it scans 127 slides (which none of the other similar units do). Does it scan the entire 127 slide, which is square and about 1 5/8" on a side? If it will, I would consider obtaining one. If it can't handle the full size of a standard 127 slide (in the 2" mount) then I'm not interested. I suspect that when they say it will scan 127 slides they just mean that the 2" square mounts can be put into the trays, which will then get scanned as if they were 35mm, cropping off what doesn't fit that format. That is not acceptable to me.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Epson V750 will scan any size slide you have easily up to 8x10.
I have scanned super slides, Stereo slides, half frame slides, 126 slides as well as 35mm slides with it.
Also just about any film size you have never heard of.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

You can scan and send to a lab, too.

Nymphadora

Hello, David in Dallas... I looked at mine and the carrier for slides does do 127 slides. The hole in the carrier is 1 5/8" tall, and 1 15/16" wide. This is set up for a 2" mount but the center seems arbitrary. When set for 127, colour, slide, it will block out the entire edge of the white slide mount. It may lose about 1/32 of a large Super Slide 127. This part of a slide is usually the slight black edge of the slide as it goes into colour. They usually are not centered very well. I don't have a Super Slide to try out...but with a 35mm slide, put in vertically and horizontally, but set for 127 colour slide, there is about 1/32" more beyond the long side of the 35mm frame. So I would say yes, it will do the full, square image of a Super Slide, minus about 1/32" or so off each edge. I also put a blank 127 b&w negative strip into the carrier, traced its full image, put it into the Wolverine without any carrier to find where the trace lines were, and it shows 1 5/8"x1 5/8" square, minus perhaps, 1/32" on each edge. So I still say yes, it will do the 127 Super slide. If you want, you can send me one slide, not a favourite one, I'll run it thru this scanner, and send you the image, plus a light table digital photo to show what is close or exact. And then see if it is what you want. Oh, I forgot...I ran a roll of Ektachrome 100 thru my first camera, a Kodak Brownie Starlet 127, from 1959, thru the unit as a 127, colour, slide, thru the main carrier I've been talking about, and the entire square was there, nothing cropped, because it was not mounted. (I made a 120 splitter to make 127 and a 110 camera strip from the 16mm remnant, so I still use fresh, homemade 110 and 127 film..) Here is my image of the full frame 127 square image, minus a very slight trim, removing frame numbers and other yellow Kodak letters to keep it square. Brownie Starlets have a bit of a rough edge on the image. These images are from June 2016 on frozen 2008 Ektachrome 120, slit to 127. Nyms

romanticf16 Loc: Commerce Twp, MI

With a bellows and slide copy attachment any high MP DSLR should be able to copy your slides. Standardize a stable light source, do a white balance, then copy away. Print from the images you take with your DSLR.

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

Thanks, nymphadora, it does appear to have scanned the 127 Superslide OK. I don't need to send you one to process. Losing 1/32" is not an issue--most slide scanners don't quite get the whole image, either. I have some old 127 Superslides that I originally scanned with a flatbed scanner (old, and not very detailed), and some of them I scanned later with a Nikon Coolscan as 35mm format (not too bad, but not what I want)--I actually scanned them both vertically and horizontally see which worked best. My earliest photos of my USAF career were made with a Baby Brownie Special on 127 film--the prints haven't been a problem, but the slides were. I graduated to 35mm in 1965 (Petri 7S rangefinder) and have been in that format ever since. However, the first 5 years were 127 size.

Thanks for your response.

Nymphadora

Ah..I have a Baby Brownie Special as well. It's amazing what good slides they take. What I'm using now is a 1925 Kodak Hawkeye Vest Pocket 127. One shutter speed and one for time/bulb, and four f stops. The format is 4x7cm so I use a light table and Nikon d60 for those. The camera is a great, tiny folder. I hope I was able to help you. I like the Wolverine, and as you can see, my 4x4 slide scanned as full image. Unmounted, though, so I cropped to lose the yellow Kodak info.. Nyms