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burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Fredrick wrote:

Bill, if you do provide this service in the future, I’m assuming that you’ll let us know? I, for one, would be interested in having you scan some of our old negatives. Thanks.

kfcam Loc: Fort Myers Florida

I do have some boxes of old negatives of my kids while growing up. Kids are all older and have their own kids now.
I was reading this, but no one recommend what negative Scanner to get. Any recommendations?

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

kfcam wrote:

I do have some boxes of old negatives of my kids while growing up. Kids are all older and have their own kids now.
I was reading this, but no one recommend what negative Scanner to get. Any recommendations?

Popular is Epson V600, or a newer model. Usage ideas: https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-689142-1.html

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

kfcam wrote:

I do have some boxes of old negatives of my kids while growing up. Kids are all older and have their own kids now.
I was reading this, but no one recommend what negative Scanner to get. Any recommendations?

If you want to go the scanner route, the Epson Perfection V600 is an easy pick. It scans prints, slides, and negatives, and comes with software that converts negatives to positives. If you have an older Mac or PC that supports 32-bit software, it also runs Digital ICE to remove dust and scratches.

If you use a Mac with 64-bit MacOS, you will need to use the link on Epson's support site to download a free copy of SilverFast SE. It makes use of the infrared sensors that enable scratch and dust removal. (Digital ICE does not run on 64-bit Macs). (Scanner serial number required!)

If you are an enthusiast photographer with a dSLR or mirrorless camera and a macro lens, you can PHOTOGRAPH your slides and negatives. Read this white paper to learn the basic principles and see how I do it.

Camera Scanning.pdf opens in your favorite PDF reader.
Attached file:
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LowellR

Thank you for all the information and all others as well, I am 82 and housebound with COPD. I am an amateur that loves photography and not being able to go out much I thought scanning would be something I could enjoy with my camera. I built my own copy stand and have done some of my own negs some taken in the 60's. The equipment I use is the copy stand and canon camera's, still working on the light source. Not interested in making a business just enough to pay for my upgrades and a some to help pay the rent. I really enjoy the hog and all your entries.

Steved3604

Take a look at Burkphoto download. Great ideas for your digital camera/copy set up. Look at Chroma Pro and other color head/copy set ups. Yes, digitizing slides and negs and then correcting in software is usually fun and sometimes interesting. I see your point on something to do that's interesting in doors.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Steved3604 wrote:

Take a look at Burkphoto download. Great ideas for your digital camera/copy set up. Look at Chroma Pro and other color head/copy set ups. Yes, digitizing slides and negs and then correcting in software is usually fun and sometimes interesting. I see your point on something to do that's interesting in doors.

I copied slides to slides in the 1980s with a Bowens Illumitran IIIc and a separate $5000 custom-built rig from MM Industries that had an inverted Beseler 4x5 color head and a "slide compound" — a slide holder with special vernier-dial controls that could move it in 0.001" increments. The rig in the white paper PDF I posted above works just as well for copying slides and negatives, but without the precision X-Y movement not needed for digital.

The LED light panel (Viltrox L116t) is about a $50.00 device. You can spend ten times that much and get maybe a slightly noticeable improvement in color. Lightroom Classic can erase the difference.

Steved3604

Some where around here with my 400' slide dupe camera I (might still) have the MM (what was their name?) micro adjustable slide holder. That's a blast from the past! I saw the "upside down" color head the other day.

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

My brother started scanning our family slides from our vacations, 5000, but they were mounted in cardboard. 60 yo cardboard produce a lot of dust. More you handled them more dust. He only got part way gave up to do other things

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Steved3604 wrote:

Some where around here with my 400' slide dupe camera I (might still) have the MM (what was their name?) micro adjustable slide holder. That's a blast from the past! I saw the "upside down" color head the other day.

The only part of my Double M system I still have is the pin-registered Nikon F3HP.

Were you working in a lab or a multi-image studio or...?

Steved3604

Double M -- that's the name from the past. Slide dupes, mostly, with a pin registered 400 foot (Stan) Maron Carrell camera. Nice rig -- did a nice job. Saw the Pakon mounter the other day, too. Cardboard mounter (Byers) long gone. Sometimes multiple projectors with sound and dissolves (imagine that). Oh, and thanks for posting how to do digital copies with a digital camera. Good stuff.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Steved3604 wrote:

Double M -- that's the name from the past. Slide dupes, mostly, with a pin registered 400 foot (Stan) Maron Carrell camera. Nice rig -- did a nice job. Saw the Pakon mounter the other day, too. Cardboard mounter (Byers) long gone. Sometimes multiple projectors with sound and dissolves (imagine that). Oh, and thanks for posting how to do digital copies with a digital camera. Good stuff.

You're welcome. I was an in-house corporate AV producer in the early to mid-1980s. We had a series of production/presentation studios as our department moved from our printing plant to a rental space across the street to a photo lab back on the main property. We made 9-15 projector multi-image shows for sales meetings, training seminars, and yearbook editor workshops, videos for training, and created lots of printed pieces for promotions. It was a great way to get into those businesses and taught me more than I ever wanted to know about them. Here's a peek. My first assistant (see photo) became my wife a couple years later. We're still together after 38 years.

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Steved3604

Nice set up. Nice tie. Congrats on 38 years. We jobbed out most of the audio work to a studio and did the production and the slide work. Started Radio/TV/Film in high school. Went to Denver University for Mass Communications. Stayed in Denver. Enjoyed almost every minute of my photo/film/TV work environment. Creating something from nothing is fun.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Steved3604 wrote:

Nice set up. Nice tie. Congrats on 38 years. We jobbed out most of the audio work to a studio and did the production and the slide work. Started Radio/TV/Film in high school. Went to Denver University for Mass Communications. Stayed in Denver. Enjoyed almost every minute of my photo/film/TV work environment. Creating something from nothing is fun.

It is so much easier in 2023 than it was in 1983! These days, everything happens in a digital audio workstation, a video editing application, a word processor, and some photo applications, all running on a 2.8 pound laptop. The tools are so much more efficient, and easier to use.

My twins and I have made several short films for fun. One of them is a media studies major at UNCG, and does live e-sports Internet (Twitch) broadcasts for the school. The other one is a part-time photographer/videographer in Charlotte.

Steved3604

Media studies at the University level. Who'd a thought it --- couldn't do that 50+ years ago. E sports with a hand held 35mm sized video camera. (we shot news film -- WWII Bell and Howells and Auricon.) Then 3/4 inch tape "portable" cameras. It's come a long ways. Still fun and yes the tools are easier and more efficient -- but you still need a "good" story.