Have you, yet - gathered up all your 35mm slides and digitized them, yet? ... If so, what process did you use? (Page 2): And what did everyone do with the slides and negatives after...

Keldon Loc: Yukon, B.C.

And what did everyone do with the slides and negatives after scanning them? Just throw them away?

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Leicaflex wrote:

No, this is a task I have yet to complete.
Still wading through digitising 8,000 negatives.
Not even up to the first thousand yet.

What happens after you copy them, LF ... go into PP and then hit reverse, or what?

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Longshadow wrote:

I purchased a slide scanner years ago, scanned them all with a 2x enlargement factor.
Now I have to find my negatives and scan them, as well as old photos - Winter project...

How many can you do at once, with a slide scanner, Bill?

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Chris T wrote:

What happens after you copy them, LF ... go into PP and then hit reverse, or what?

I use gimp to carefully inspect each image at the 200% level, and fix any remaining issues {scratches, fungus spots, etc, etc}

bleyton Loc: Los Angeles, CA

Keldon wrote:

And what did everyone do with the slides and negatives after scanning them? Just throw them away?

Slides went back into the trays, negatives into plastic sleeves in binders. I won't toss them, just in case. They already came in handy when I had a hard drive crash a few months ago. I didn't realize until much later that some folders were lost, and I had already wiped out the old backups. I was able to identify the missing pictures in Lightroom, and re-scan them.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Keldon wrote:

And what did everyone do with the slides and negatives after scanning them? Just throw them away?

Ahh, yup.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

RichardTaylor wrote:

Just used a tool used to hold models while painting them, except I used it to hold the slide, and photographed the slides against a white background that was lit by sunlight.

Two examples:

Not bad, Richard ... that top one, of the motorcyclist ... has a painted look ... how'd you get that? ... PP?

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

rehess wrote:

I purchased three different scanners over time, an Epson, a Plustek, and a refurbished Nikon. The Nikon turned out to be the best, and over the past eight years I've methodically scanned most of my slides and few negatives.

How'd the negatives turn out, RE?

What do you do after ... reverse them in PP?

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

rehess wrote:

I use gimp to carefully inspect each image at the 200% level, and fix any remaining issues {scratches, fungus spots, etc, etc}

You have a lotta fungus spots on your slides, RE? ... Are you storing them in a damp basement, or what?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Chris T wrote:

How many can you do at once, with a slide scanner, Bill?

There is a tray that holds 4 slides (another for negatives), save one, slide tray, save it, slide tray.
I didn't have thousands to do, only a few hundred.
My slide scanner is an oldie, over 5 years I'd guess.
Many are simply a camera in a box set at a pre-focused distance to the slide/negative.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Chris T wrote:

How'd the negatives turn out, RE?

What do you do after ... reverse them in PP?

Scanner automatically does that. It also allows me to adjust curve, colors, etc.

Chris T wrote:

You have a lotta fungus spots on your slides, RE? ... Are you storing them in a damp basement, or what?

Some of them are fifty years old. The few spots are small, but noticeable.

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Keldon wrote:

And what did everyone do with the slides and negatives after scanning them? Just throw them away?

Good question ... probably, I'll just return them to the slide boxes for continued safe storage ... haven't even started, yet ...

Negatives ... not even sure about those, as yet ....

Most of mine are 120/220 ....

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

bleyton wrote:

Slides went back into the trays, negatives into plastic sleeves in binders. I won't toss them, just in case. They already came in handy when I had a hard drive crash a few months ago. I didn't realize until much later that some folders were lost, and I had already wiped out the old backups. I was able to identify the missing pictures in Lightroom, and re-scan them.

Handy ... that Cloud Service, huh, B?

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

Longshadow wrote:

There is a tray that holds 4 slides (another for negatives), save one, slide tray, save it, slide tray.
I didn't have thousands to do, only a few hundred.
My slide scanner is an oldie, over 5 years I'd guess.
Many are simply a camera in a box set at a pre-focused distance to the slide/negative.

Still, a tedious process, huh, Bill?

Chris T Loc: from England across the pond to New England

rehess wrote:

Some of them are fifty years old. The few spots are small, but noticeable.

50 years old, huh, RE?

I should be so lucky ... I've only been in this house 45 ... anything before that's long gone, by now ...

Wait ... I think I have a few of those notebook folders, with negs in from the 70-72 period .... I'll check ...