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carl hervol Loc: jacksonville florida

This is the way i do it's faster than scanning and they look great i use a old enlarge stand light box and 80mm macro.

Blaster34 Loc: Florida Treasure Coast

Keldon wrote:

I have several thousand slides that I'd like to digitize. Who has what scanner? - how fast/slow is it? How convenient to operate?
Would it be better just to send them out somewhere to have it done instead? I do have time on my hands.
Thanks for any suggestions offered.

FYI, I have Canon CanoScan 9000F MkII and use it for my old Vietnam slides. Bought it new on line (eBay) for ~$110, easy to operate, full windows (10) compatibility. 9600x9600 dpi optical resolution, Scans 3 slide at once in a provided slide holder, intuitive. I have plenty of time also and copying all my older slides was easy. Like anything else for scanning, make sure your slides are as clean as possible. Epson is also a great choice....Good Luck

-E1940

Like Keldon, I have several thousand slides plus old photos and negatives, I am slowly digitizing. All of the comments, are helpful to me as well.

I have a Epson V600 scanner. The speed is dependent on the resolution. I like high rez but it takes a long time. I am purchasing additional equipment and will post my results.

louparker Loc: Scottsdale, AZ

Keldon wrote:

I have several thousand slides that I'd like to digitize. Who has what scanner? - how fast/slow is it? How convenient to operate?
Would it be better just to send them out somewhere to have it done instead? I do have time on my hands.
Thanks for any suggestions offered.

Did you bother to search this topic before asking the question? It has been discussed many, many times before with a lot of good discussion and information.

Keldon Loc: Yukon, B.C.

louparker wrote:

Did you bother to search this topic before asking the question? It has been discussed many, many times before with a lot of good discussion and information.

Yes, I did. The newest answer was 2 years ago. Things change, people experience new things and have new advise. What does it hurt to ask again?

WayneL Loc: Baltimore Md

Keldon wrote:

I have several thousand slides that I'd like to digitize. Who has what scanner? - how fast/slow is it? How convenient to operate?
Would it be better just to send them out somewhere to have it done instead? I do have time on my hands.
Thanks for any suggestions offered.

I scanned about 3,000 slides and negatives one winter on an Epson V300, they turned out great. If you got the time it will be fun. I estimate that I looked at around 15,000 slides and negatives in a 4-6 month period, about 6 hrs a day 5 day a week.

Keldon Loc: Yukon, B.C.

I have the time but I don't think I have the dedication that you have. That sounds too much like a fulltime job.

WayneL wrote:

I scanned about 3,000 slides and negatives one winter on an Epson V300, they turned out great. If you got the time it will be fun. I estimate that I looked at around 15,000 slides and negatives in a 4-6 month period, about 6 hrs a day 5 day a week.

WayneL Loc: Baltimore Md

I'm retired so it was a piece of cake.

stu352 Loc: MA/RI Border

Before you spend the big bucks... Here's how I copy batches of slides:

http://www.pbase.com/sb_photos/slidecopier2

It works pretty good. Photos copied this way were used in a book, and in a documentary film that... well, lets just say it never made it to distribution. But they paid me.

Stu

mark53

Keldon wrote:

I have several thousand slides that I'd like to digitize. Who has what scanner? - how fast/slow is it? How convenient to operate?
Would it be better just to send them out somewhere to have it done instead? I do have time on my hands.
Thanks for any suggestions offered.

I have just acquired maybe 100 5" x 7" glass "slides" from the 1800's. I tried the scanner with limited success, using light table and camera works better and is faster also.

(The gentleman in front of the tent is my wife's G-G-Grandfather. He was good at hiding the string, but this is a selfie!)

Actually, I taped the slide to a north-facing window.

(Download)

chuckster99

I don't want freak you out, Keldon. However, scanning seems to be a thing of the past.According to the prices some places charge. I am an avid scanner. Scanners seem to have died since the advent of the digital camera. It seems that software is very hard to come by nowadays.If you need scanning, I would suggest shopping west coast. I seem to recall there are full service labs in the state. I might try to find my software writer and ask his advice. I will try to let someone know at hedgehog know as soon as I receive word. In the meantime good luck and good shooting.

weedhook

In the December 2017 issue of Outdoor Photographer, George D. Lepp explained how he is digitizing his slides using a digital camera, a copy stand, a lens that can focus to near life size and an LED light source (6x9 inch Artograph LightPad for $68). You do need to find a way to hold the slide (he uses a slide holder from a film scanner). If you can find that issue, he goes into greater detail. I think I read another article by a photographer who was doing his slides in a similar way. The main advantage is that it's relatively fast. Back in the film days, you could buy a slide copier that attached to your camera with a T-mount and had optics built in to allow for copying slides, film strips, negatives, whatever. I don't know if something like that is still available anywhere.

Photo_Buff Loc: San Francisco Bay Area

I use a late model Nikon Cool Scan. At 4000 dpi, it's a great scanner. Although Nikon no longer supports it, I have been able to download drivers for Win7 64 from the web. I have over a thousand slides I took on various trips abroad. I am not likely or inclined to retake them with digital. I have to get the dust off the slide, scan it, and then use PS to square the edges, touch-up, and color correct. I can only do one at a time, which is a bit of a pain. I do 35mm Kodachrome, and medium format. The file sizes are huge. It's very rewarding to do!

KillroyII Loc: Middle Georgia

I have a Plustek OpticFilm 7300 (does slides and negatives only, not prints). I did some, and it does a good job; however, the time it takes is a killer. It is not just the scanning part but cleaning the slides of dust, etc. and loading and unloading the 4 slide trays all contribute to the time.
For a few slides, it is great. For a huge batch... it was beyond what time I was willing to spend. As soon as I am sure I have all my slides done I will sell it but that has not been a priority.

My daughter gave me a Groupon gift coupon, where she paid a slide scanning service for me to do a big batch of slides... after that, I paid to do the remainder (that I could locate... some of these go back to the 1960s).

The service I used was Heartland (heartlandbox.com). The only way to go, with them, is to get a Groupon deal (groupon.com) for a SIGNIFICANT discount. That company has a higher end service, costs more but more professional result. I was happy with the Heartland Box.

Good luck with whatever you choose... preserve those memories...

Paul Moshay Loc: Los Angeles, CA

I have thousands of slides from shooting slides for 60+ years. I have an Epson 4990 and a Nikon Coolscan 4000. Nikon does not support it any longer so I use Vuescan and it works just fine, However, my slides do not need 4000dpi just for safekeeping and possible viewing on my computer, so I sent them to Scan Cafe, (scancafe.com) and they charge .25cents per slide, and even less when they have a sale. They do a good job, check them out.