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Scanning 35mm slides?
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 |
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Bite the bullet Terry, new scanners even with slide attachements are not
expensive. "Terry Pinnell" wrote in message ... 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 |
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To scan a slide, a flatbed scanner must illuminate the subject from above,
i.e. a scanner built for the job has a light built into the lid. Trying to scan any other way just won't work. String engineering doesn't really work either. I would suggest paying a visit to someone like jessops for a new scanner, or if it's a one off job sub it out. I know this probably isn't the answer that your looking for, but, if you don't use the correct tool for the job, you will spend years regretting it. By the way, how old and how many slides? John D www.celticgods.co.uk "Terry Pinnell" wrote in message ... 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 |
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"John DH" wrote:
To scan a slide, a flatbed scanner must illuminate the subject from above, i.e. a scanner built for the job has a light built into the lid. Trying to scan any other way just won't work. String engineering doesn't really work either. I would suggest paying a visit to someone like jessops for a new scanner, or if it's a one off job sub it out. I know this probably isn't the answer that your looking for, but, if you don't use the correct tool for the job, you will spend years regretting it. By the way, how old and how many slides? John D Thanks both. Looks like a lost cause then! Maybe a new scanner... -- Terry, West Sussex, UK |
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Terry Pinnell writes:
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? It's a light source that goes on the other side of the slide from the sensor. For my scanner, it was a separately purchased add-on, so at least sometimes they can be obtained separately. A brute force one could be improvised, I'd think. You need a light source behind the slide to get a decent scan. Running the light through the slide, bouncing off a white thing, and back through the slide again doesn't work well; the result is to dim and if you solved that, it would then be too contrasty. 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? Yes, that works, to some degree. It depends on what resolution and degree of perfection you need in the results. -- David Dyer-Bennet, , http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ RKBA: http://noguns-nomoney.com/ http://www.dd-b.net/carry/ Pics: http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/ http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Dragaera/Steven Brust: http://dragaera.info/ |
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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. -- Jerry G. ====== "Terry Pinnell" wrote in message ... 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 |
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"Jerry G." wrote:
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. -- Jerry G. ====== David, Jerry : Thanks, very helpful. I'll experiment a little first, then report back. -- Terry, West Sussex, UK |
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You don't say what kind of camera you have, but I've seen these
advertised for years for both film (to get negs) and digital. I have no idea what sort of quality they produce, since I've never used one. I do seem to remember that they were said to do a pretty fair job, but maybe somebody with recent experience could steer you in the right direction regarding their use. I also see them on EBay pretty cheap. I'd like to know for my own benefit as well, as I have quite a few boxes of slides that need to be digitized: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/specialt...ofornico5.html |
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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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"Terry Pinnell" a écrit dans le message de ... 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 -- M. |
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