| Author | Message | ||
     Pammy |
I am going to be attempting this on my own this week. Some of the slides are over 40 years old. I am using a Canon 8800F color. Has anyone ever done this? | ||
| Reepicheep |
I have with an older Nikon Coolpix 900 with a slide adapter. Worked pretty well, but you needed a good smooth light source behind it, which got a little annoying. Takes a long time... | ||
| Slaughter |
I've got 2 film scanners - a Kodak RFS3600 and a Polaroid Polascan 120. Worth the effort. Full resolution on a slide gives almost a 60MB file per image but it WILL PRINT NICE! Takes quite a while at full resolution. My main problem is motivation to review all the slides and select the ones to scan. | ||
| Pammy |
I am trying to get some good(not perfect) pics of my Mom for my Dad for Christmas. I worked on it awhile last night. The learning curve is steep when I'm so ignorant. Also, some of the slides are older than me. I know, I know...who knew they had camera's back then.  | ||
| Blake |
I have had good experience using my Plustek Opticfilm 7200 slide/film scanner. It works very well. Included software is good. Cost is very reasonable. | ||
| Blake |
The Cannon looks like a good deal too... http://www.amazon.com/Canon-CanoScan-Negative-Scan ner-2168B002/dp/B000V2QCQI/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_to p | ||
| Blake |
"My main problem is motivation to review all the slides and select the ones to scan." Me too! Let me know when you find the motivation, I'll pay good money to get some for myself too. Time is by far the most valuable commodity in my life these days. | ||
| Pammy |
I got the Canon 8800. It took me so long to manipulate 2 slides last night. Of course there was the one time set up and installation of software. I am thinking I may just scan them in and manipulate them at my leisure, once I have them captured. My typical M.O. is to make an attempt at operation and read the instructions later.... | ||
| Pammy |
Some of these slides are so old and abused, I could spend hours repairing spots, scratches, etc... | ||
| Reepicheep |
Photoshop Elements has decent balance of being powerful enough to do a lot of clean up, but not overwhelming (in features or price). They may have some filters that get you 80% of the way there in 5% of the time, and you can just leave it at 80%. It's analog film, sputz is character. | ||
| Pammy |
Blake, that's the one I purchased. I have several boxes of slides from my Dad's Vietnam days that I am going to try to resurrect for him for his Birthday in January. I may eve be ambitious enough to add some "Vietnam" music to the DVD that I hope to create. For Christmas, though, I will be happy to have some decent photo's of my Mom and his little rug rats for a family montage. He is not in real good shape and he loves pictures from the past. | ||
| Pammy |
What about drive space? Issues? | ||
| Crackhead |
hard drivers are cheep, just get another one and a backup drive. | ||
| Greg_e |
ANything with scratches on the back side (not the emulsion side) should be wet mounted to reduce the effect of the scratches. Scratches in the emulsion of course can't be corrected since the information is gone. I've used a Microtek 4000 and it was OK, my Nikon 8000 is far better in terms of noise in the scan. | ||
| Reepicheep |
If it saves them as JPEGS, it probably won't be awful. Saving them as Tiffs (no compression) gives a very minor quality improvement at the cost of exponentially more space. External USB hard drives are handy and cheap. | ||
| Pammy |
I have been saving them as tiffs. I am getting a bit more selective about what I keep now. I don't know how to tell which is the emulsion side by just looking. I have ordered a spray cleaner. I use compressed air to clean them now. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Unless you plan on publishing them in national geographic, save them as full resolution high quality JPEGS. The compression artifacts will be just about impossible to find on 8x10 prints or smaller. | ||
| Slaughter |
Seriously consider UN-Framing them for cleaning if they have any gack on them. There will be more image behind the slide frame. (sheesh Pammy, your FATHER's Veet-Nam images? You're making me feel OLD now) | ||
| Greg_e |
Warning! Many of the cleaners make the emulsion soft and easily scratched. I don't think you can buy the stuff that does not make the emulsion soft because it was deemed a hazardous material. I forget exactly what the good stuff is, but most of the modern stuff is alcohol and water. | ||
| Slaughter |
Freestyle photo in LA is one of the last serious photo-hobbyist and Pro shops. They can get ANY chemicals that are legal for shipping. Wipes too. | ||
| Pammy |
Don't feel old Steve. My Dad was probably known as the 'old guy' during his tours. He was a field medic. They kept him as long as they could. | ||
| Drkside79 |
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