Chalybeateman Loc: Camden County Georgia

Takes too long to do them yourself. Scan Café is the best idea

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

I have done thousands of prints, slides and negatives on an Epson V750 (Replaced now in the product line by the V850) with excellent results.

brent46 Loc: Grand Island, NY

I made this to copy my slides. D7100 with 28-105 Macro lens allows coping slides quickly as Raw or JPEG files. I think the sensor in the camera does a better job then a scanner. Shooting raw gives more editing opportunities for slides that need help. It is also pretty fast. You can easily copy 4 slides a min. If you like message me for more detail.

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Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Nice setup.

hrblaine

>But VueScan is a popular scanner product and it costs a lot less than SilverFast.

I've used VueScan, it's worked well for me. I've copied selected frames of B/W 35 mm negatives with a Canon FS4000 but I'm too lazy to scan all of them so most of them are still filed away.

ChiefEW

I purchased the Epson V600 scanner. I scanned about 800 slides, then took them into lightroom. I was very happy with the results. Here is one of the slides from my tour in Thailand 50 years ago.

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fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

I'll add my vote to those suggesting the Epson V600. It's inexpensive and can handle any form of photographic image including negatives. In the professional mode, which is largely intuitive, it has a nice offering of photoshop-type adjustments so you can clean up a lot of faded, over exposed, etc. photos as part of the scanning process.

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

I haven't found a scanner that will scan the size 127 1 5/8"x1 5/8" slides. I have to use a flat-bed scanner to do those.

FrumCA

I use a simple ION PICS 2 SD scanner available on Amazon for about $100. You can load up to 4 slides at a time to copy to an SD card. You can them upload the images to your computer for post processing if desired. One caution is to make sure that you keep the loading slot as dust free as possible as you will get spots on the image if you are not careful.

machia Loc: NJ

The V600 does slides ?
I have thousands of slides that I need to digitize . They're are a batch of slides that I shot from 1972-2012 , and my Dad's stuff that he shot on his Argus from 1955-1999 .

Maz

I have been using the Epson V700 Photo scanner with its associated software with excellent results. With the image scanned, I then use Photoshop to correct and fix any defects.

rtk823

I will second the gent who mentioned Scan Cafe. I used them for converting 35mm slides from Vietnam era and had wonderful results. That was prior to their price increase, but it was well worth it for almost 200 slides. Compared several of those same slides using Costco scanning service and no comparison -- Scan Cafe much better resolution. Also have an Epson scanner which gives good results, but it time consuming. Will someday convert the other 500+ slides that way once retired!

good luck.

Paul Buckhiester Loc: Columbus, GA USA

Canoscan 9000

MilanA

I have an Epson V550 that does a good job, but I didn't like the software and ended up picking up VueScan 64. to make it a less painless process. There was another software option to go with an existing scanner but their licensing agreement was too unfriendly / limited. In the end I think it all depends on how much time you want to spend and what your intended use is. If you have bulk slides most of your standard scanners are slow enough to require the patience of a saint to do quantity, but many of the cheaper film / slide specific scanners are faster but with much lower quality results.

One thing I did do that tested out pretty good was to take a LED light board and set it up with guides for slides and then use my D7100 with macro extension tubes on a tripod with remote, which actually worked out pretty good since I could then shoot in RAW and use my normal post processing and work flow and I could capture a lot of images quickly. (which is the way that I will go in the future unless I have just a few slides or slides that are in rough shape where I want to use digital ICE, etc. to recover the images). Below is the setup I used.

Kissel vonKeister Loc: Georgia

WATCH OUT! That's a great scanner, but it has a SCSI interface. Does your computer?