What you really need is a dedicated slide scanners. A compromise would be a
scanner with a proper slide adaptor.

I have a friend that used a Kodak slide viewer, and a small digital camera.
He cleaned it up very well, and made a box with a proper mounting for it. He
can mount his camera on it, and use it in the macro mode, to take pictures.
The results are not as good as a slide scanner, but on a computer monitor,
they don't look too bad. When the results are printed at 5 X 7, some of them
are almost border line acceptable.

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Jerry G.
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"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
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Is there any way I can scan old 35mm slides successfully with my
standard (AstraSlim) scanner on my XP PC please? Efforts so far with
combinations of high resolution, varied brightess/contrast, white
sheet behind, etc, have all produced muddy blurs.

I see some scanners come with a 'slide adaptor'. What exactly are
these, and can they be obtained separately, or even improvised?

Alternatively, anyone successfully used other ways of digitising these
old slides please? How about the combination of one of those portable,
battery-powered slide holders, or a normal screen/wall projector,
together with digicam on a tripod?


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Terry, West Sussex, UK