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Old August 2nd 10, 08:04 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
Skylamar Jones
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Default Digitizing Slides

Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar
question recently.

My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of
the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through
them, looking at them manually using a slide projector.

She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29
cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which
is more than my mom wants to spend.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for
digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than
Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home.

Thanks,

Sky
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Old August 2nd 10, 08:36 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
Ofnuts
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Default Digitizing Slides

On 02/08/2010 09:04, Skylamar Jones wrote:
Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar
question recently.

My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of
the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through
them, looking at them manually using a slide projector.

She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29
cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which
is more than my mom wants to spend.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for
digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than
Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home.


Digitizing slides at home is extremely labor intensive, unless you have
one of these very expensive Nikon scanners with all their expensive
options that make it just plain labor intensive.

I'm facing the very same problem (except I'd be the one doing the
scanning) but I'm taking another route: reduce my Dad's 3000 slides to a
set of 100-200 worth passing to the next generations.

--
Bertrand
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Old August 2nd 10, 08:37 AM posted to rec.photo.digital
MG
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Default Digitizing Slides


"Skylamar Jones" wrote in message
...
Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar
question recently.

My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of
the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through
them, looking at them manually using a slide projector.

She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29
cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which
is more than my mom wants to spend.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for
digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than
Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home.

Thanks,

Sky


Here is a DIY approach. (costs nothing)
http://www.blighty.co.za/brsd/
Probably not for your Mom, but maybe you could do it for her.

Then you could have a select few properly scanned if you want large prints,
etc.

MG


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Old August 2nd 10, 02:16 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
John McWilliams
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Default Digitizing Slides

Ofnuts wrote:
On 02/08/2010 09:04, Skylamar Jones wrote:
Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar
question recently.

My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of
the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through
them, looking at them manually using a slide projector.

She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29
cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which
is more than my mom wants to spend.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for
digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than
Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home.


Digitizing slides at home is extremely labor intensive, unless you have
one of these very expensive Nikon scanners with all their expensive
options that make it just plain labor intensive.

I'm facing the very same problem (except I'd be the one doing the
scanning) but I'm taking another route: reduce my Dad's 3000 slides to a
set of 100-200 worth passing to the next generations.

My first thought, too. Go through them with her, make notes and mark the
ones really worth keeping.
Good luck!

--
john mcwilliams
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Old August 2nd 10, 03:00 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Ofnuts
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Default Digitizing Slides

On 02/08/2010 09:04, Skylamar Jones wrote:
Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar
question recently.

My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of
the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through
them, looking at them manually using a slide projector.

She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29
cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which
is more than my mom wants to spend.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for
digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than
Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home.

Thanks,

Sky


Comme to think of it... if you have a decent camera, there are slide
duplicators such as this:

http://www.soligor.de/src/product_details.php?cPath=134_232&pid=47900&langua ge=en

This is a bit faster than the scanner.

--
Bertrand
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Old August 2nd 10, 03:08 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Tony Cooper
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Default Digitizing Slides

On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:16:49 -0400, John McWilliams
wrote:

Ofnuts wrote:
On 02/08/2010 09:04, Skylamar Jones wrote:
Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar
question recently.

My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of
the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through
them, looking at them manually using a slide projector.

She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29
cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which
is more than my mom wants to spend.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for
digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than
Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home.


Digitizing slides at home is extremely labor intensive, unless you have
one of these very expensive Nikon scanners with all their expensive
options that make it just plain labor intensive.

I'm facing the very same problem (except I'd be the one doing the
scanning) but I'm taking another route: reduce my Dad's 3000 slides to a
set of 100-200 worth passing to the next generations.

My first thought, too. Go through them with her, make notes and mark the
ones really worth keeping.
Good luck!


I think most of us of a certain age have gone through this with either
their own slides or slides taken by a parent. I did, and I culled the
slides down to about 10% "keepers" and scanned them myself.

The process of weeding them out is quite enjoyable. Going through the
slides brings back a lot of memories. The process of scanning is less
enjoyable, but can be done over a period of time.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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Old August 2nd 10, 03:38 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Default Digitizing Slides




"tony cooper" wrote in message
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On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:16:49 -0400, John McWilliams
wrote:

Ofnuts wrote:
On 02/08/2010 09:04, Skylamar Jones wrote:
Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar
question recently.

My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of
the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through
them, looking at them manually using a slide projector.

She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29
cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which
is more than my mom wants to spend.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for
digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than
Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home.

Digitizing slides at home is extremely labor intensive, unless you have
one of these very expensive Nikon scanners with all their expensive
options that make it just plain labor intensive.

I'm facing the very same problem (except I'd be the one doing the
scanning) but I'm taking another route: reduce my Dad's 3000 slides to a
set of 100-200 worth passing to the next generations.

My first thought, too. Go through them with her, make notes and mark the
ones really worth keeping.
Good luck!


I think most of us of a certain age have gone through this with either
their own slides or slides taken by a parent. I did, and I culled the
slides down to about 10% "keepers" and scanned them myself.

The process of weeding them out is quite enjoyable. Going through the
slides brings back a lot of memories. The process of scanning is less
enjoyable, but can be done over a period of time.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida



Certainly, it is good advice to cull out the slides that have little or not
compelling reason to keep them. I also have been through this with my own
and my father's slides. Went from around 3500 to around 800.
Second, there are a number of flat bed scanners that can scan slides and
color film as well as opaque materials. These scanners are not as expensive
as a good slide scanner and will have a useful life beyond scanning the
slides.

Regards,

Gordo


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Old August 2nd 10, 03:52 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
ray
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Default Digitizing Slides

On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:04:28 -0700, Skylamar Jones wrote:

Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar
question recently.

My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of
the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through
them, looking at them manually using a slide projector.

She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29
cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which
is more than my mom wants to spend.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for
digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than
Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home.

Thanks,

Sky


TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) applies here. You
can buy a decent flatbed scanner with slide/negative scanning
capabilities for around $100. It would then take a LONG time to process
them adequately. You might actually get through a few hundred before you
gave up. Strongly suggest you do a web search (google is one) to try and
find a lower cost solution.

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Old August 2nd 10, 04:02 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Dave Cohen
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Default Digitizing Slides

On 8/2/2010 3:04 AM, Skylamar Jones wrote:
Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar
question recently.

My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of
the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through
them, looking at them manually using a slide projector.

She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29
cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which
is more than my mom wants to spend.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for
digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than
Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home.

Thanks,

Sky

I used a dedicated slide/negative duplicator that sells for around $100.
It worked fairly well for negatives but was unsatisfactory for color
slides, so avoid that.
Flat bed scanners may do better. If I had to do it, I would play with
the camera solutions suggested in other threads. The commercial camera
accessory shown made by Soligor looks interesting but you need a camera
that will work with that.
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Old August 2nd 10, 04:10 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
bugbear
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Default Digitizing Slides

MG wrote:
"Skylamar Jones" wrote in message
...
Hi. I'm new to this group so I don't know if someone posted a similar
question recently.

My mom has 3000 slides taken by my dad, who has passed away. Because of
the space the slides take up in her home, my mom is weeding through
them, looking at them manually using a slide projector.

She isn't that computer savvy but she told me that Costco charges 29
cents per slide for digitizing them. For 3000 slides that's $870 which
is more than my mom wants to spend.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for other ideas for
digitizing slides such as using a company that's cheaper/better than
Costco or a buying/renting good scanner that my mom can use at home.

Thanks,

Sky


Here is a DIY approach. (costs nothing)
http://www.blighty.co.za/brsd/
Probably not for your Mom, but maybe you could do it for her.


from the site:

Once I got going, I managed to copy a set of 150 slides in just over an hour.


So 3000/150 = 20 hours, or (if you like)
20 days at an hour a night.

That's doable, if not enjoyable as such.

BugBear
 




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