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Post by jonesy on Oct 4, 2011 16:48:52 GMT 12
Hey all, I need to pick your guys brains here. We have bucketloads of slides from the 50's-70's but need to put them onto disc so better preserved. I know theres businesses that do this but there must be a alternative (cheaper!) way....
Any hints/clues etc would be greatly appreciated!
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Post by adzze on Oct 4, 2011 16:51:44 GMT 12
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Post by jonesy on Oct 4, 2011 16:59:16 GMT 12
Thanks for that mate, I had a look at that. Its full of big words that I'll have to make a nice big cuppa and a sit down to understand. Did pertain mostly to scanning prints, which I have somewhat mastered. Slides seem to be a whole different monster...
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Post by skyhawkdon on Oct 4, 2011 17:53:43 GMT 12
I bought a $250 slide scanner to do mine a while back and was pretty dissapointed with the results. In the end I took the ones I wanted for the Skyhawk book to a professional outfit to get done properly. There was no comparison!
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Post by jonesy on Oct 4, 2011 17:58:44 GMT 12
Yeah I thought that might be the case. Last option is put them through the slide projector onto the wall and take a photo of it! Kiwi ingenuity at its best....
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Post by shorty on Oct 4, 2011 18:00:37 GMT 12
Jonesy, I had the same problem along with boxes full of 35mm negatives.
I lashed out and bought a HP photosmart C8180 all in one printer, It copies slides to my computer, does negatives (automatically converting them to positives) prints photo quality prints, scans, photo copies (both black and white and colour) prints direct from discs and takes my camera cards as well. I just have to figure out how to get it to make a good cup of coffee!
Price was around $500 (and got a $100 petrol voucher as a sweetener) and ink cartridges run around $23 each
I've more than saved the cost of it in not having to set up a darkroom and buy photo paper and chemicals.
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Post by jonesy on Oct 4, 2011 18:39:47 GMT 12
Jonesy, I had the same problem along with boxes full of 35mm negatives. I lashed out and bought a HP photosmart C8180 all in one printer, It copies slides to my computer, does negatives (automatically converting them to positives) prints photo quality prints, scans, photo copies (both black and white and colour) prints direct from discs and takes my camera cards as well. I just have to figure out how to get it to make a good cup of coffee! Price was around $500 (and got a $100 petrol voucher as a sweetener) and ink cartridges run around $23 each I've more than saved the cost of it in not having to set up a darkroom and buy photo paper and chemicals. Thanks for the info.Sounds like the go. Its good to see these machines exist. There must be something smaller and single-use application out there somewhere. Looking in the right place generally helps... |
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Post by shorty on Oct 4, 2011 19:25:46 GMT 12
Jonesy, forgot to mention that the photos I have posted here were all done on mmy 8180.
If you look at my "stash"thread earlier on in this board you'll see lots of photos (especially the PNG ones) that were done from slides.
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Post by hairy on Oct 4, 2011 20:22:04 GMT 12
I use a Microtek i800 which cost me about $600 new. Here's a review........... www.imaging-resource.com/SCAN/MI8/MI8.HTMThese pictures (below) are from old slides straight from the scanner at a relatively low resolution of (IIRC) 300dpi (the scanner goes up to 9600dpi).   One thing I have learnt along the way is to give each slide a wipe with a good clean lens cloth before scanning to get rid of the tiny hairs and other crud that has accumulated over the years. These are from a negative (60 x 110mm) on the same scanner at about 200 dpi...........    |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 4, 2011 20:24:49 GMT 12
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Post by jonesy on Oct 4, 2011 21:11:06 GMT 12
Great info guys, thanks! I'll have a look at trademe when I'm at home. (For some reason we cant access it at work-apparently its a time waster or something...)
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