billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Do what I do, start the process while you are doing something else, like reading, washing the car, puttering in the garage, then every 15 minutes load another batch of slides. You would be surprised how easy this is and how many slides you can do in a day.
I would also only scan the most important slides first, then the others as you have the time.
Good luck and keep on shooting until the end.

whitehall Loc: Canada

As time seems to be the issue, maybe prior to scanning this would be an opportunity to eliminate slides. In the process you may find some gems, or not

IrishLover Loc: Massachusetts

Remember that if you scan a 35mm slide at 300 dpi your output is 1:1 or 300 dpi yielding a 35mm size scan. Will fall apart on larger prints. The Epson v600 is a very good basic photo scanner loved by home genealogists. my workflow focuses on starting with a very clean work environment. Dust is your enemy. I scan with the Epson sw and use Photoshop to edit scan. I never use ICE.

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

As others have said, use the Professional mode and make sure you preview the 4 slides first. Once you do that, you can make corrections using the V 600's software. I use roughly the same settings as CHG CANON but I found that using the ICE setting increased the scan time from about 2 minutes per 4 slides, to about 15 minutes for the 4 slides so I stay away from that feature unless I absolutely need it.

jlocke Loc: Austin, TX

Instead of using the ICE option, I scan the slides, then do whatever touch-up needed with the Photoshop healing brush.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Scan at 600 dpi to speed things up. If you have a few that you want to print enlargements from you could redo them at 1200 or even higher.

coolhanduke Loc: Redondo Beach, CA

Not sure what your final need is but 300 dpi for a slide seems awful small. I scanned mine at 2400 dpi with my v750 and my file size was about 18mb which is about what I wanted.
I posted in another thread about scanning 130+ slides and time it took. I’ll have to go back and revisit.

DHooch

I have an Epson 850 and can scan 12 slides at a time. It has a second tray that can be loaded while scanning the first tray. That helps. That said, before I started scanning my 10,000 slides, I did a test using various settings. My first go-around was a very high quality of scan and it took an hour to scan 12 slides. I didn't need to scan at the highest resolution, because I'm not going to exhibit my photos.

My test included many file types, resolution, compression, dust removal and color correction settings. When I couldn't see any difference between a lower scan time/quality setting vs. a higher scan time/quality setting, I went with the faster one. So, I settled on a compressed TIFF file format that is between three and six MB per slide and it takes about 13 minutes to scan a tray of 12 slides. Keep in mind that the first scan is to determine the type of slide or film and which frames are populated. This takes about a minute. The actual scanning of each of my slides take about a minute.

My suggestion for you is to make your own tests, using various settings, and then decide what quality and scan time you are willing to accept. Good luck.

don26812 Loc: South Bay of Los Angeles, CA

It sounds like your plan is to have your scanned slides become your new archival master, so you can discard your slides. That may not be your intent, and it probably shouldn't be. That be as it may, scanning at only 1200 dpi is probably too low if you are considering printing some of them. Keeping the math simple and saying a 35 mm slide is one inch square, 1200 dpi will only allow a print of 4"x4" if you sent a file of 300 (ppi) dpi to the printer. I would scan at 3200 dpi.

As others have pointed out, the time/slide increases, but you don't have to sit and watch it. :-)

Actually, 1000 slides are not that many looking at it that way.

FWIW

hgrinolds

The V600 lamp does not extend over the full cover area. Hence, just 4 slides. Time and resolution are the trade offs.

BebuLamar

For 35mm slides or negatives 600dpi is too low resolution.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

As a reminder, we're creating pixel-based images.

The issues in the scanning parameters are to properly describe the negative size (35mm 'doc size' = 36 w 24 h mm) and the pixel resolution of the resulting pixel-based image, as in:

3888 x 2592 pixels (10MP)
4000 x 6000 pixels (24MP)

BebuLamar

Don't have a V600 so I don't know how the dpi settings related to the image size but 0with my Dimage dual scan IV at 3200dpi I get about 4500x3000 which is about 13.5MP

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

I'm always forgetting the ratio, how many dots are in a pixel? Or, does it go pixels in a dot?

David Taylor

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