Scanning Thousands of Slides

Currently I have thousands of slides from the 1960/1970s which I want
to scan onto CDs. The quote from Jessops - never the cheapest - is 50p
per slide - OUCH!! I don't want to have to rig up a projector and
screen and take photos one at a time. So is there a slide scanning
device - with automated feed - that I can connect to a USB2 port of a
PC - for scanning batches of slides say 100 at a time? Many thanks -
CJB.

CJB

Re: Scanning Thousands of Slides

In article <XcWdneO4x6xlxDDZnZ2dnUVZ_rydnZ2d@comcast.com>, weg9
@comcast.net says...
How much you gonna pay, senor? You gonna geev me top dollar? I very
esperiensed with da scannin' ese.
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DD

Re: Scanning Thousands of Slides

Yeah....I don't know how to do that....Does the program save them for you? -
I guess it would have to, or you would be wasting your time....Can you
toggle it to save them, "raw", so you can clean them up later? Will it
protect itself if one of them jams? My KM machine is pretty delicate....I
would probably want a more durable machine if I wanted to do that.....Even
if I wasn't sleeping, I could use a machine like that....I could practice my
trumpet in the same room as it scanned, and just check up on it every few
minutes.......


William Graham

Re: Scanning Thousands of Slides

That happened to me once, so I decided to process the E-6 film myself. Funny
thing was, after I had finished, I couldn't find the damned negs anywhere!
Perhaps they dissolved because of the elevated temp. compared to B/W work? The
slides came out OK though... weirdest thing!
On a more serious note - don't buy the HP flatbed scanner that can do 16 slides
at once - it's a total disaster! My old Canon has it beat!


BobF@nospam.com

Re: Scanning Thousands of Slides

Agreed, manual cleaning is preferable... if you have the time. ICE
makes the scans take longer, but that's of no concern if you load the
scanner with 50 slides and to bed (or to work or do anything else).
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Mark Roberts

Re: Scanning Thousands of Slides

ICE significantly increases the scan time. If I have to use it, I do, but
It's much better to clean and scan the slides without it if they are
relatively new and not scratched up or covered with fingerprints. I have a
bunch of 50 year old slides (and negatives) that are covered with mould
spots, and some have fogging at the corners....For these, I use ICE and
anything else I can get my hands on........


William Graham

Re: Scanning Thousands of Slides

Sorta the same as those old 3.5 inch floppies. Time they got to
saying "insert disk 3" you needed a hammer to get it in there.


Ken Weitzel

Re: Scanning Thousands of Slides

In article <Kegrg.31216$nd1.94371@wagner.videotron.net>,
No, an external HD. IT is amazing how many times one will have "found"
slides or film strips that must be included in already scanned and
archived pictures. And, for many archived files of pictures, later
taken picts need to be included. I tried DVD's for about a year and had
a lot of gnashing of teeth because there was no room to enter new picts
that needed to be in certain files.
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Re: Scanning Thousands of Slides

Nikon 4000/5000 and V. You need to purchase the feeder seperately.
Automatic scanning of so many slides means accepting the scans as they
come. Usually one does a prescan to check the exposure slide by slide.
Most esp. if the films are of differnt kinds and have color shifted
over time.
And despite the scanning (automatic or otherwise) there will still be
cropping, sizing for screen display, thumbnails, etc. (which can be
automated in part in Photoshop).
Then you have to think of long term storage ... "gold" CD's / DVDs'.
Cheers,
Alan
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Alan Browne

Re: Scanning Thousands of Slides

You sure it was Kodak that marketed that? I remember one company marketing
that type of film. The film was actually motion picture film spooled onto
35mm. I guess with that particular film you get negative and positive
images. I tried it once and it was okay, but I never stuck with it.


Nathantw

Re: Scanning Thousands of Slides

Nope. Doesn't work. They keep getting stuck in the slot.
You can maybe jam 'em in 3 at a time, but it's still real hard getting
'em out so you can put in the next batch.


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