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Scanning Thousands of Slides
"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote in message ... In rec.photo.digital wrote: as an aside it would be easier to scan the negatives if you still have them? film scanners have been on the market longer so are cheaper. There are no negatives when you shoot slide (color reversal film). In fact, they are called positives and the slides ARE the film that was in your camera. Kodak used to make a "professional" film that would give you both slides and negatives back I don't remember how it worked....Obviously the film in the camera was either one or the other, and they had to make the, "other" in the lab. In those days they designated their film types with a number. Today, they give them some Mickey Mouse name, and so you don't know what you are really using.....It's all part of the "dumbing down" of the society that has taken place during my lifetime. |
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Scanning Thousands of Slides
"CJB" wrote in message ups.com... Currently I have thousands of slides from the 1960/1970s which I want to scan onto CDs. The quote from Jessops - never the cheapest - is 50p per slide - OUCH!! I don't want to have to rig up a projector and screen and take photos one at a time. So is there a slide scanning device - with automated feed - that I can connect to a USB2 port of a PC - for scanning batches of slides say 100 at a time? Many thanks - CJB. Check out dedicated film scanners. Jim |
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Frank Pittel wrote:
... I was finding that sitting and watching the grass grow was more interesting then scanning slides! I disagree with starting with the "important" slides first. After those are done there will be little to motivate you to keep scanning the unimportant ones! ... You can always try scanning several slides at the same time! Meaning that you just stack two or, say, five of them on top of each other and scan all at once as a single frame. It has obvious benefits: 1) by scanning five slides per stack you get through the while pile five times faster, 2) the results are always unpredictable and can be hilarious (which keeps it fun). The drawbacks that come to mind include: 1) stacked slides can be too dense for the scanner, 2) slides have to be unmounted 3) in the end the whole thing is completely useless. But who cares? -- Best regards, Andrey Tarasevich |
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Scanning Thousands of Slides
"Frank Pittel" wrote in message ... In rec.photo.equipment.35mm CJB wrote: : Currently I have thousands of slides from the 1960/1970s which I want : to scan onto CDs. The quote from Jessops - never the cheapest - is 50p : per slide - OUCH!! I don't want to have to rig up a projector and : screen and take photos one at a time. So is there a slide scanning : device - with automated feed - that I can connect to a USB2 port of a : PC - for scanning batches of slides say 100 at a time? Many thanks - : CJB. I just finished scanning a huge number of slides and found that I was adjusting the scan settings for each slide. To make a long story short it was a slow painful process that I never want to repeat! -- Ideally, if you had infinite patience, you would scan them all in with the same scanner settings, and save them on a hard disk "raw" and unretouched and/or cropped in any way. Then, you would retouch and crop the images at some later date as you needed them, for whatever purpose that happened to be. I don't do this because I don't have the auto feed equipment, and doing it by hand would bore me to death. So I scan them in one at a time and work on the image right on the spot, which keeps me sane, at least. |
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Scanning Thousands of Slides
CJB wrote: Currently I have thousands of slides from the 1960/1970s which I want to scan onto CDs. The quote from Jessops - never the cheapest - is 50p per slide - OUCH!! I don't want to have to rig up a projector and screen and take photos one at a time. So is there a slide scanning device - with automated feed - that I can connect to a USB2 port of a PC - for scanning batches of slides say 100 at a time? Many thanks - CJB. I work in a large Digital Lab, and have worked with a various amount of scanners, the one I think would help you is the Nikon Coolscan it has a slide holder that you can put 4 to 6 slides in, and the results were very impressive, It will take you quite a long time to scan them all in, but I think you would be very happy with the result. Good luck. |
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Andrey Tarasevich wrote:
Frank Pittel wrote: ... I was finding that sitting and watching the grass grow was more interesting then scanning slides! I disagree with starting with the "important" slides first. After those are done there will be little to motivate you to keep scanning the unimportant ones! ... You can always try scanning several slides at the same time! Meaning that you just stack two or, say, five of them on top of each other and scan all at once as a single frame. Nope. Doesn't work. They keep getting stuck in the slot. You can maybe jam 'em in 3 at a time, but it's still real hard getting 'em out so you can put in the next batch. |
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Kodak used to make a "professional" film that would give you both slides
and negatives back I don't remember how it worked....Obviously the film in the You sure it was Kodak that marketed that? I remember one company marketing that type of film. The film was actually motion picture film spooled onto 35mm. I guess with that particular film you get negative and positive images. I tried it once and it was okay, but I never stuck with it. |
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Scanning Thousands of Slides
CJB wrote: Currently I have thousands of slides from the 1960/1970s which I want to scan onto CDs. The quote from Jessops - never the cheapest - is 50p per slide - OUCH!! I don't want to have to rig up a projector and screen and take photos one at a time. So is there a slide scanning device - with automated feed - that I can connect to a USB2 port of a PC - for scanning batches of slides say 100 at a time? Many thanks - CJB. Nikon 4000/5000 and V. You need to purchase the feeder seperately. Automatic scanning of so many slides means accepting the scans as they come. Usually one does a prescan to check the exposure slide by slide. Most esp. if the films are of differnt kinds and have color shifted over time. And despite the scanning (automatic or otherwise) there will still be cropping, sizing for screen display, thumbnails, etc. (which can be automated in part in Photoshop). Then you have to think of long term storage ... "gold" CD's / DVDs'. Cheers, Alan -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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Alan Browne wrote: Then you have to think of long term storage ... "gold" CD's / DVDs'. No, an external HD. IT is amazing how many times one will have "found" slides or film strips that must be included in already scanned and archived pictures. And, for many archived files of pictures, later taken picts need to be included. I tried DVD's for about a year and had a lot of gnashing of teeth because there was no room to enter new picts that needed to be in certain files. -- There are two ways to spell Ockham/Occam. Britannica prefers the former. |
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Scanning Thousands of Slides
no_name wrote: Andrey Tarasevich wrote: Frank Pittel wrote: ... I was finding that sitting and watching the grass grow was more interesting then scanning slides! I disagree with starting with the "important" slides first. After those are done there will be little to motivate you to keep scanning the unimportant ones! ... You can always try scanning several slides at the same time! Meaning that you just stack two or, say, five of them on top of each other and scan all at once as a single frame. Nope. Doesn't work. They keep getting stuck in the slot. You can maybe jam 'em in 3 at a time, but it's still real hard getting 'em out so you can put in the next batch. Sorta the same as those old 3.5 inch floppies. Time they got to saying "insert disk 3" you needed a hammer to get it in there. |
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