Converting slides to digital
Apr 1, 2020 13:27:34 #
I live in Atlanta and found a scanning service that would do high DPI TIFF files from my 35mm slides. It's a bit more expensive but the results were very good. They also scanned negatives for me. If you are in a large metro area I am sure you could find a similar service. Just another alternative to consider since the equipment will have finite use.
Apr 1, 2020 13:45:00 #
repleo wrote:
If you have a lot of slides, you can rent a high speed slide scanner from EZ Photo scan. Up to 900 slides per hour at 3000 dpi.
https://services.ezphotoscan.com/home/
https://services.ezphotoscan.com/home/
I've used their equipment and it works great. A little pricy but it saves an enormous amount of time and anguish. I scanned about 3600 slides in just a few hours.
Apr 1, 2020 14:05:53 #
If you can find one, the Nikon Coolscan IV ED does a good job scanning slides. This is the last scanner that Nikon produced and the software has been updated by Ed Hamrick and the combination of the hardware and the software update is very good.
Apr 1, 2020 14:34:08 #
doublebogey7 - just a thought that if you still have your old scanner, you might still be able to use it through using 3rd party software such as VueScan or SilverFast. Both are available to purchase and download online.
Apr 1, 2020 14:39:11 #
I use a Nikon with an EC-1 adapter. Put slides in adapter which you affix to a 60mm full frame or a 40mm cropped sensor. Shoot with ambient light. Very inexpensive way to go and you can process your shot to improve, but would not be able to improve an original if out of focus. Much better than a scanner. Believe EC-1 is around $100. Again, this applies to Nikon. Not sure if other brands have a copying system or adapter.
Apr 1, 2020 15:08:16 #
Apr 1, 2020 15:27:59 #
I have an attachment for my Nikon D850 and a 60mm F2.8 macro lens that I have used very successfully to digitize slides with a RAW file of about 45 MB
Apr 1, 2020 16:05:47 #
Apr 1, 2020 16:13:30 #
MG Audet wrote:
Exactly my process. Works extremely well.
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Apr 1, 2020 16:14:05 #
Ednsb
Loc: Santa Barbara
lots of people bring up NIKON choices but how about one for Canon cameras and lens?
Apr 1, 2020 16:27:05 #
Ednsb wrote:
lots of people bring up NIKON choices but how about one for Canon cameras and lens?
Perhaps most Canon users use high quality scanners with ICE for minimal Post Processing. Also the scanner can easily restore faded and restore most colors as part of the scan. When scan is finished you generally have an amazing high quality product that generally needs no additional effort.
Apr 1, 2020 16:30:46 #
Ednsb wrote:
lots of people bring up NIKON choices but how about one for Canon cameras and lens?
Add a macro lens capable of 1:1 reproduction on the sensor to your kit.
Make a film holder. Backlight it with a photo grade, color correct light source. Put that on a copy stand baseboard.
Mount your camera on the copy stand. Level everything.
Do a CUSTOM WHITE BALANCE of the light source in full auto mode. Switch to FULL manual exposure, lowest ISO, and a shutter speed under the power line frequency (1/60 or slower in USA). Find the aperture that renders a slide perfectly.
Switch to raw capture if you use Lightroom and wish to compress shadow and highlight details.
Plans for many such rigs are on YouTube.
Or go here: http://skier.com.tw/web/en/Products/products_content.jsp?gs_id=GS1567146643860&chk_who=content&isPage=true
Apr 1, 2020 16:39:52 #
burkphoto wrote:
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Thank you. Will do
Apr 1, 2020 17:46:30 #
waliddle
Loc: Washington State
I have a HP Scanjet 4890 flatbed scanner. It has a light source in the lid which lets you scan negatives and slides. The frame for slides holds 16 slides and each slide is scanned into a separate file. Only drawback is HP only has drivers for up to XP so I need to keep my old HP netbook working to use the scanner.
Apr 1, 2020 17:50:06 #
xt2
Loc: British Columbia, Canada
doublebogey7 wrote:
Years ago I bought a slide conversion unit that only gave me “meh” results. I want to try again for my many
slides. Any suggestions? Thx
slides. Any suggestions? Thx
There are a slew of on-line services that will take of this for ya...
Cheers!
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