Scanning 35mm slides?

Terry Pinnell wrote:

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?


Usually these adapters consist of a seperate light source in the cover,
a holder to hold the film or slide in a specific spot in the scanner
field, and some software to process negs and slides differently, and
both different from normal reflected source processing.

When you're done scanning, keep track of the slide and digital image
with PhotoLibrary . Check out a free demo at
http://www.PhotoLibrarySoftware.com/

pete

If there were one of these that fits different cameras that would be nice. I
see an added benefit of getting a better copy each time you get a better
camera. These things were well known 30 years ago as slide copiers. I used
them then and were happy.

"Ron" wrote in message
ups.com...
l have a somewhat similar outfit for my Oly 2020 and 5060 and with good
lighting (I use a high intensity light) get results approximately equal
to those obtained from my very good Epson scanner. It takes a little
practice (I find I need to open up my aperture a bit) and you may have
to do some color balancing in your editing software, but it is much
faster than using the scanner. The advantage of a good scanner is that
you can preview the slide for color adjustment before actual scanning.
Incidentally, I get good results at 1600 or 1200x, certainly good
enough for 4x6's and, probably 5x7's. In the SHQ mode of the 5060 can
get
a bit more.

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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?


--
Terry, West Sussex, UK


There are inexpensive slide/film scanners like the
PrimeFilm 1800u made by Pacific Image Electronics
http://www.scanace.com/en/product/1800u.php

Be the judge :

Diapos and some negative scans:
http://dhost.info/photocanon/diapos/index.htm

Only Kodak and Agfa negatives scans:
http://dhost.info/photocanon/mai1968/index.htm

I bought the Primefilm scanner a few years back and was VERY satisfied
with the result. A certain amount of preparation before scanning will
save time later. Wiping the slide with a damp, lint free cloth
(spectacle cloth) will remove a lot of dust - at 1800 dpi the scans
blown up to 300% there seems huge amounts of spots. But the healing tool
will take care of a lot of this. Tramlines are something else.

Don't bother with the combined flatbed/film scanners - results are far
inferior to film only scanners. The Minolta Dimage IV is another idea,
but more expensive and far more time consuming unless you're only doing
carefully selected slides but the Dimage will handle APS films.