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converting 35 mm slides to digital images
I have hundreds of 35 mm slides of family and travel which I want to transfer to digital images.
On the rare occasions when I can access a scanner, it is very time consuming. I have a 35 mm carousel projector, and wonder whether I can photograph each image as I project it onto a white surface. Has anyone else done this, and are there some factors I need to take into consideration, such as size of projected image, setting of digital camera, etc.? |
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converting 35 mm slides to digital images
In article , LeighWillaston wrote:
I have hundreds of 35 mm slides of family and travel which I want to transfer to digital images. On the rare occasions when I can access a scanner, it is very time consuming. I have a 35 mm carousel projector, and wonder whether I can photograph each image as I project it onto a white surface. Has anyone else done this, and are there some factors I need to take into consideration, such as size of projected image, setting of digital camera, etc.? I did this with 8mm movies, except onto video tape. You may need to compensate for color error. Most are using a tungston lamp, but might not be too bad. I think you should have good luck. Converting my slides to digital were not all that impressive. You gain contrast. Clarity should be decent if you use autofocus on the projector and use a tripod, and fix your cameras focus. greg |
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LeighWillaston offered these thoughts for the group's
consideration of the matter at hand: I have hundreds of 35 mm slides of family and travel which I want to transfer to digital images. On the rare occasions when I can access a scanner, it is very time consuming. I have a 35 mm carousel projector, and wonder whether I can photograph each image as I project it onto a white surface. Has anyone else done this, and are there some factors I need to take into consideration, such as size of projected image, setting of digital camera, etc.? I have tried this and it does work. Whether the quality is good enough for you depends on your expecations. Consider that your camera likely had a very good lens but a slide projector has a relatively poor lens which is optimized for brightness and a flat "subject", the slide. As to your questions, not knowing much about the subjects on your slides or their condition, it is difficult to say anything meaningful other than, experiment with a typical set of them and see what works best for you. Also, investigate local or mail-away slide scanning services. Ritz Camera does this as does CVS Pharmacy (of all people!), and I suspect many other places do as well. Prices tend to start at 75 cents/slide and can get to $1.50 or $2.00 in my investigations. If you decide this is a solution for you, consider a couple of "gotchas": one is that you'll be sending away irreplaceable slides, so I would go slowly. The other is that the scanning service may create digital images that you feel are too light or too dark, or have a color shift. If you see the latter in your test scans, tell the service what you want. The better ones will allow you to specify general alterations to the general setup they use. -- HP, aka Jerry |
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converting 35 mm slides to digital images
I have hundreds of 35 mm slides of family and travel which I want to
transfer to digital images. On the rare occasions when I can access a scanner, it is very time consuming. I have a 35 mm carousel projector, and wonder whether I can photograph each image as I project it onto a white surface. Has anyone else done this, and are there some factors I need to take into consideration, such as size of projected image, setting of digital camera, etc.? This is what I did. MG |
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converting 35 mm slides to digital images
I have hundreds of 35 mm slides of family and travel which I want to
transfer to digital images. On the rare occasions when I can access a scanner, it is very time consuming. I have a 35 mm carousel projector, and wonder whether I can photograph each image as I project it onto a white surface. Has anyone else done this, and are there some factors I need to take into consideration, such as size of projected image, setting of digital camera, etc.? This is what I did http://users.iafrica.com/m/mc/mcollett/brsd/index.htm MG (Sorry, forgot URL first time around) |
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converting 35 mm slides to digital images
"MG" wrote in message ... I have hundreds of 35 mm slides of family and travel which I want to transfer to digital images. On the rare occasions when I can access a scanner, it is very time consuming. I have a 35 mm carousel projector, and wonder whether I can photograph each image as I project it onto a white surface. Has anyone else done this, and are there some factors I need to take into consideration, such as size of projected image, setting of digital camera, etc.? This is what I did http://users.iafrica.com/m/mc/mcollett/brsd/index.htm MG (Sorry, forgot URL first time around) I have more than a thousand 35 MM slides that have been sitting in metal boxes since the early 1950's. I have tried scanning them, and find they are not nearly good enough for me to waste the time of trying to edit them into a presentable digital photo after 50 years. It didn't help that I tried to take a digital shot when they were projected on a screen. Maybe a camera shop might do better, but I would have them convert 2 or 3 photos to see the quality of the resulting digital photo. RCN |
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converting 35 mm slides to digital images
On Jun 1, 4:11 am, LeighWillaston
wrote: I have hundreds of 35 mm slides of family and travel which I want to transfer to digital images. On the rare occasions when I can access a scanner, it is very time consuming. I have a 35 mm carousel projector, and wonder whether I can photograph each image as I project it onto a white surface. Has anyone else done this, and are there some factors I need to take into consideration, such as size of projected image, setting of digital camera, etc.? I've done that with 8mm movies as well, and have also scanned old family photo albums with a digital camera (I've also scanned many years worth of 35mm negatives using a film scanner -- with a good negative, the results are very good, but it's quite time-consuming). I think the slide projector method is an excellent idea in that once you get things set up, it should be many, many times faster than using a flatbed or dedicated film scanner. Use your lowest ISO setting (and a tripod if necessary). Obviously make sure both the camera and projector focus are spot on (preferably put the camera in manual focus mode, so you don't have the possibility of random focus misses as you go). And experiment with the white balance (or shoot raw and post- process). And if you see particular images that are especially worthy of more careful treatment, make a note of those as you go and then use a film scanner or scanning service on only those. Mark |
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converting 35 mm slides to digital images
Robert Nabors offered these thoughts for the group's
consideration of the matter at hand: I have more than a thousand 35 MM slides that have been sitting in metal boxes since the early 1950's. I have tried scanning them, and find they are not nearly good enough for me to waste the time of trying to edit them into a presentable digital photo after 50 years. It didn't help that I tried to take a digital shot when they were projected on a screen. Maybe a camera shop might do better, but I would have them convert 2 or 3 photos to see the quality of the resulting digital photo. I've got an estiamted 5,000+ Kodachrome and Ektachrome slides in Kodak Carousel trays sitting in my basement. Most are of Europe taken while on various leaves and passes while I was in West Germany with the U.S. Army. The rest are vacation pictures until I gave up 35mm film in favor of home video when my daughter was small. They are in pretty good shape considering their age, possibly because they've been stored in the dark so dye fade and color shift is minimal. But, they're covered with dust. Groan! I've tried scanning some with a mediocre scanner with mediocre results. Obviously, I would never attempt to scan nearly the total. I estimate that the "keepers" are in the range of 700-800, still a big job to do myself if I ever decide to buy a dedicated slide/neg scanner and a piece of change for a service bureau to do. I'd never given any thought to the simple expedient of showing them on a white wall and at least trying my Rebel XT on a tripod with proper adjustment for WB, brightness/contrast, etc. But, the real reason I am chiming in a 2nd time in this short thread is to fully support your notion to test drive any way you or me or the OP decide to attack the problem. In my other reply, I said to ALWAYS send irreplaceable slides in small batches and try to keep the batches relatively similar in exposure et al so that the scanning service can take direction from me. If I ultimately decide to use a service bureau, I will pay the price for one that is more "professional", meaning that I can give direction to for color balance and brightness/contrast, and one that can try to use Digital Ice on the dust, although I believe that at least some versions of Kodachrome won't work with DI. Again, no matter what method(s) are chosen, test, test, and test again is the watch word. -- HP, aka Jerry |
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MarkW offered these thoughts for the group's consideration of
the matter at hand: I've done that with 8mm movies as well, and have also scanned old family photo albums with a digital camera (I've also scanned many years worth of 35mm negatives using a film scanner -- with a good negative, the results are very good, but it's quite time-consuming). I think the slide projector method is an excellent idea in that once you get things set up, it should be many, many times faster than using a flatbed or dedicated film scanner. Use your lowest ISO setting (and a tripod if necessary). Obviously make sure both the camera and projector focus are spot on (preferably put the camera in manual focus mode, so you don't have the possibility of random focus misses as you go). And experiment with the white balance (or shoot raw and post- process). And if you see particular images that are especially worthy of more careful treatment, make a note of those as you go and then use a film scanner or scanning service on only those. Mark, I see no way around the time consuming part. If the number to be scanned/photographed on a wall is at all large, at the very least, one would have to go through them one by one and cull out the keepers and leave the less memorable in the tray. That itself takes time, especially since I would try to mark them so I could figure out which position in the tray they came from. I have toyed with the idea of buying a Nikon Coolscan dedicated scanner, maybe a 5000 or a newer model if there is one. I'm told these scan 4 at a time. So, scan time is going to be both tedious and a PITA, as it tweaking all those old slides that are less than perfect and giving them a reasonable name. Your advice is excellent and in keeping with what I'd learned the last time I investigated both scanners and service bureaus more than a year ago. I suppose the quantity I have to do and the time and expense involved are causing me to drag my feet. Maybe I'll give the projector method a whirl and see if that is good enough .... -- HP, aka Jerry |
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converting 35 mm slides to digital images
"LeighWillaston" wrote in message ... I have hundreds of 35 mm slides of family and travel which I want to transfer to digital images. On the rare occasions when I can access a scanner, it is very time consuming. I converted about 2000 negatives using a HP SJ4890. It takes its time but I did 5 strips of 4 negs at a time (it's a flatbed with built in A4 transparency adapter). It was a case of put 5 strips in start it off and go and do something else (like sleep). It came with holders for 5 strips of 35mm negatives, 16 mounted slides, and a cut film one. Don't do 4800dpi as the files are far too large. Use a lens brush to remove the dust. |
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