drossy

I have thousands, and most have been converted with a slide
scanner. Look at the ones that just scan slides & film strips,
I think they're the best for this purpose

tomk

Kodak no longer makes a stand alone slide/film scanner so unless you can borrow or rent one that is ouy of the question.Most flatbed scanners are not set to scan slides. The focus point is the top of the glass. Thats' why you have to dismount the slides. The newer Epson scanners like the 700 or 750 have a different system. When you program it for transparencies the scanner shifts the focal point to the bottom of the slide,or at least for those in paper mounts. I have a Nikon film scanner and an Epson 750 flat bed and can not tell the difference between them. Of course since I'm 76 that may be because of my eyes.

renomike Loc: Reno, Nevada

You do not need to de-mount the slide with the Canon 8800F, but it's not just a slide scanner. It will scan anything you put on it. It has a detachable cover on the top lid, which you reinstall to scan photos or other things. The only time you need to take the top cover off is to scan film, or slides

warrior Loc: Paso Robles CA

90healy

I didn't mention that the Epson V300 scanner will also scan color negatives, if you have any.
Tip: go to Google and type in:


review v300 epson

This will provde you with additional info

PapaJon Loc: Oregon Coast

And the purpose of this link is?

les_stockton Loc: Eastern Oklahoma

I think he meant that for an HDR thread. No harm.

PapaJon Loc: Oregon Coast

Was just confused, no worries.

Ray Bullock Loc: Redding, CA

This is a repeat but I bought a scanner from Costco on line for around $80. Scans 4slides at a time or negatives and automatically converts them. Took me several days and cans of air to do 3-4 thousand slides .

And yes slides are left in their frames.

tlee99 Loc: cameron park ca

Hi Renomike, My mother passed away and there are boxes of slides that are probably from the 1930's to 1950's. I have not looked at them yet. From what I am reading, the scanner sounds great but what software are you using to do touch ups etc. This is all new to me.
Terry

Ray Bullock Loc: Redding, CA

I use PhotoShop Elements 8

mortonfarm Loc: Texas

Hello...not only did I convert slides, they were all the old jumbo slides from my father's collection beginning in the early 1960's thru about 1980...I used a HP scan jet Pro purchased in 2001 with the express capability of scanning slides and negatives of all sizes by the use of a separate unit called an XPA attachment...It came with masks (black ) to black out the scanner bed except where the slide or negative nesteled in a cut out area with the XPA unit providing the back light to scan the negative or slide image...It worked like a champ and I was able to scan and save nearly 1000 images of slides and old family negatives going back to the pre-1920's... It is impossible to do with out the black mask and a back light...You can google scanning slides/negatives with backlight and find where some have made their own, but if you can find and afford one on the market and is newer than mine, you will have better results..My scanner is still functioning in top form and I do occasionally use the attachement to scan slides and negatives for friends...I have struggled to upgrade and hot fix it for every OS I have used and now have it on my desktop computer with XP home...If you don't have very many and don't need them like tomorrow, I would be glad to help you with some of them...Linda Morton, Morton Farm Beefmasters, Central Texas.

BBNC

The Canoscan 9000F ($200 at B&H) works for me. A professional photographer who had about 10000 slides to digitize put me onto it.

The best results are achieved by learning how to use the built in adjustments before the final scan. I use 9800dpi and adjust the lighting level.

Regular scanners are not intended to scan slides/film because they require a light source that shines through the slide. Stay away from the inexpensive ones because their light source is not adjustable.

You do not have to demount slides.

twhitbey

Hi Mike….I’m all so doing that or trying to do that. I use HP Photosmart all in one scanner. It has an adapter for holding 4 slides at a time, it also has a adapters for slides
all the negatives that I’m scanning in to the computer are turning out light blue does the mean I have bad negative or what?

renomike Loc: Reno, Nevada

I've had about four scanners over the years, and Epson was the worst I ever had, that may not be true today, but I'm on my second Canon scanner. Just be sure what you get is capable of doing slides and film. I know have a Canon Canoscan 8800F, and I love it. It most likely is not made today, and they now have a newer model. Probably Canoscan 9000 or something like that. The software that come with the scanner is excellent, jusy my opinion. It's very verstile in scanning film and slides, or prints.

I have Photoshop version 7 and Photoshop CS (PS version 8). I also have Zoner Photo Studio Pro 13, which I love, and use more than I do PS now. Right now Zoner Pro 13 costs $69.95, and that as a special includes a license for installing it on up to 3 computers total. Zoner is very similar to the earlier versions of PS, but much easier to use than PS, here again just my opinion. They have a free trial for 30 days I believe, so you can download it, and play with it and it costs you nothing. If you like it, you can buy it. There are some free Photo software programs out there, but I'm not familar with them. It's like anything, you get what you pay for. I'm sure zoner does a whole lot more than the free ones.

The 1930 to 1950 slides sound very interesting. If I can answer any other things for you, just let me know. I'm no expert, but I have been doing it for many years.

My Best.... Mike