Any advice on slide scanners: Hi. I have a ton of old slides I'd love to scan and put on line. Years ago I bought a Pacific Image Prime-Film 3650u scanner. It no longer works. Anyone...

Ken Sloan

Hi. I have a ton of old slides I'd love to scan and put on line. Years ago I bought a Pacific Image Prime-Film 3650u scanner. It no longer works. Anyone with the same scanner have the same trouble? I'm now looking for a new scanner and am considering the Epson Perfection V600. Anyone have that? Anyone have good advice on what type of scanner to get that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? Any advice would be welcome. Thanks, people.

brent46 Loc: Grand Island, NY

I have hundreds of slides from when I was in the Navy in the 60s. After looking at slide scanners I decided on making this fixture using my D7100 with a 28-105 AF D lens in the macro mode. The bulb is a 60 watt equivalent LED daylight shinning through a piece of white paper. It works great, and I am sure te cameras sensor is superior to any of the scanners on the market. It is also much faster ten a scanner.

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Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

I like the Epson product. I use the V750 for thousands of slides. Removes dust and restores color as well.
In addition to slides it does any format of negative, multiple slide formats and prints.
Their system is hard to beat.

Ken Sloan

Thanks for responding so soon. I've seen someone else who made a similar thing. I just got a Nikon D90 and thought of buying a slide copier that would fit on the lens.

G Rissler Loc: Lower Hudson Valley, NY

I have been using a ION FIM 2 SD. Very inexpensive and you can scan straight to a computer or a SD card. It scans negatives or slides. I'm sure they have made them even better. Mine is probably 5 - 6 years old.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Ken Sloan wrote:

Hi. I have a ton of old slides I'd love to scan and put on line. Years ago I bought a Pacific Image Prime-Film 3650u scanner. It no longer works. Anyone with the same scanner have the same trouble? I'm now looking for a new scanner and am considering the Epson Perfection V600. Anyone have that? Anyone have good advice on what type of scanner to get that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? Any advice would be welcome. Thanks, people.

Good choice. Other ideas -

https://www.diyphotography.net/old-slides-want-scan-cheap-easy-way-home/
http://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/product/slide-copy-adapters/es-1-slide-copying-adapter-for-52mm-thread.html
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-448681-1.html#7548235
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-457230-1.html#7687881
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos.scanner&hl=en
http://opteka.com/slidecopier.aspx
https://smile.amazon.com/Wolverine-Super-20MP-Digital-Converter/dp/B00GIDADP0/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_g2609328962?_encoding=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0&ie=UTF8
http://www.scancafe.com/services/slide-scanning
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/08/30/copy-slides-and-old-prints-a-really-easy-way-to-digitize-your-archive/?hootPostID=62f2fdd01fc0980aa97cd08f86b5d4e3

Nikonman44

Ken Sloan wrote:

Hi. I have a ton of old slides I'd love to scan and put on line. Years ago I bought a Pacific Image Prime-Film 3650u scanner. It no longer works. Anyone with the same scanner have the same trouble? I'm now looking for a new scanner and am considering the Epson Perfection V600. Anyone have that? Anyone have good advice on what type of scanner to get that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? Any advice would be welcome. Thanks, people.

Now you have done it. I had all but forgotten about transferring all my slides into digital. I have trays and trays of about 20 years . I got a scanner 10 years ago and was starting to do it but it took to long to load, click and copy. Now I will be out there seeings whats new on the market to accomplish that task. Thanks a lot

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Ken Sloan wrote:

Hi. I have a ton of old slides I'd love to scan and put on line. Years ago I bought a Pacific Image Prime-Film 3650u scanner. It no longer works. Anyone with the same scanner have the same trouble? I'm now looking for a new scanner and am considering the Epson Perfection V600. Anyone have that? Anyone have good advice on what type of scanner to get that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? Any advice would be welcome. Thanks, people.

Yes, the Epson V600 would be great. I have a V500. I wish I had the $$$ for a V800 as I work with up to 4x5" films. The V500 only handles 35mm to 6x9cm films. All of these similar scanners can scan at least 8.5x11.5" documents or photographic prints.

cedymock Loc: Irmo, South Carolina

brent46 wrote:

I have hundreds of slides from when I was in the Navy in the 60s. After looking at slide scanners I decided on making this fixture using my D7100 with a 28-105 AF D lens in the macro mode. The bulb is a 60 watt equivalent LED daylight shinning through a piece of white paper. It works great, and I am sure te cameras sensor is superior to any of the scanners on the market. It is also much faster ten a scanner.

Just GREAT !!

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Ken Sloan wrote:

Hi. I have a ton of old slides I'd love to scan and put on line. Years ago I bought a Pacific Image Prime-Film 3650u scanner. It no longer works. Anyone with the same scanner have the same trouble? I'm now looking for a new scanner and am considering the Epson Perfection V600. Anyone have that? Anyone have good advice on what type of scanner to get that doesn't cost an arm and a leg? Any advice would be welcome. Thanks, people.

Also as someone showed you, you can either build your own mounted slide copier jig or they sell commercial ones that you copy your slide or films with a camera with. I've done that for larger films say 4x5" to 8x10" using a light box, tripod, and digital camera with macro lens. Also you may find an old school bellows macro attachment and slide copier. The camera brands all had those for their line of film cameras in the day. Also other companies made them as well. There may even be new ones, but I'd first look for a used one. I have two Pentax Bellows (M-42 & K-Mount), one with a slide copier accessory.

G Rissler Loc: Lower Hudson Valley, NY

You can get the ION scanners from $69. A lot faster than any of the camera attachments. When I bought mine I had almost 1000 slides to scan and did them all.

Nikonman44

G Rissler wrote:

You can get the ION scanners from $69. A lot faster than any of the camera attachments. When I bought mine I had almost 1000 slides to scan and did them all.

thats my dilemma ithin k therea re over 125 carousel boxes with slides fromthe 1960 thru 1990s and the biggest drawcack is the TIME todo them all.

Nikonman44

Architect1776 wrote:

I like the Epson product. I use the V750 for thousands of slides. Removes dust and restores color as well.
In addition to slides it does any format of negative, multiple slide formats and prints.
Their system is hard to beat.

I will look at Ion and the eps on and the idea of making the home made version. Thanks for all the ideas.

whwiden

brent46 wrote:

I have hundreds of slides from when I was in the Navy in the 60s. After looking at slide scanners I decided on making this fixture using my D7100 with a 28-105 AF D lens in the macro mode. The bulb is a 60 watt equivalent LED daylight shinning through a piece of white paper. It works great, and I am sure te cameras sensor is superior to any of the scanners on the market. It is also much faster ten a scanner.

That device is very cool. I have an Epson 750 that works fine for small files. I, too, have found that using a macro lens and a lightable gives a much better result if I want to make a large print.

Pablo8 Loc: Nottingham UK.

I have a Canon scanner to take up to 5 x 4 neg/slide size or A4 print size. But found quicker if copying lots of 35mm, using my Bowens Ilumitran (flash illumination) or Magnum Copier (tungsten light with dial-in colour filtration). Nikon Digital camera mounted on either...WB set, and fire away...