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Scanning Thousands of Slides
no_name wrote:
wrote: CJB wrote: 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. as an aside it would be easier to scan the negatives if you still have them? film scanners have been on the market longer so are cheaper. You know, now that you mention it ... they've never given me my negatives back when I took film in to have it processed for slides. Sheesh! the slides ARE the negatives, or more properly color slide film is color positive film. sigh. |
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DD wrote:
In article op.tb9sb9jej9nxpm@clive, says... Having recently moved to digital I too have slides to scan (15,000 - since the early 70's) I see many very big hard drives in your future. Why? Dump them all to DVD. |
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DD wrote:
In article 7eqrg.5928$283.4556@trnddc08, says... DD wrote: In article op.tb9sb9jej9nxpm@clive, says... Having recently moved to digital I too have slides to scan (15,000 - since the early 70's) I see many very big hard drives in your future. Why? Dump them all to DVD. I see many, many DVD's in your future. 50 or so already. ) |
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Ron Hunter wrote:
no_name wrote: wrote: CJB wrote: 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. as an aside it would be easier to scan the negatives if you still have them? film scanners have been on the market longer so are cheaper. You know, now that you mention it ... they've never given me my negatives back when I took film in to have it processed for slides. Sheesh! the slides ARE the negatives, or more properly color slide film is color positive film. sigh. Do you know what the zooming sound was? |
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Scanning Thousands of Slides
nathantw wrote:
Kodak used to make a "professional" film that would give you both slides and negatives back I don't remember how it worked....Obviously the film in the 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. It was Dale Labs in Florida. They offered slides & negatives from any film. Still do. http://www.dalelabs.com/filmservices...rintfilms.html URL may wrap ... here's the tiny url version: http://tinyurl.com/nm4og They also marketed repackaged Kodak motion picture film that was easier for them to process for both slides & negatives. |
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Scanning Thousands of Slides
Ken Weitzel wrote:
no_name wrote: Andrey Tarasevich wrote: Frank Pittel wrote: ... I was finding that sitting and watching the grass grow was more interesting then scanning slides! I disagree with starting with the "important" slides first. After those are done there will be little to motivate you to keep scanning the unimportant ones! ... You can always try scanning several slides at the same time! Meaning that you just stack two or, say, five of them on top of each other and scan all at once as a single frame. 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. 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. Ever manage to get 5.25 floppies to work in there? |
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Scanning Thousands of Slides
Lobby Dosser wrote:
DD wrote: In article op.tb9sb9jej9nxpm@clive, says... Having recently moved to digital I too have slides to scan (15,000 - since the early 70's) I see many very big hard drives in your future. Why? Dump them all to DVD. I think the point was that with any half-way decent filing system, they're already stored on an archival material. Instead of scanning the entire back catalog, inventory them so you know which image is where, and scan them only when you need to retrieve the image. |
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Scanning Thousands of Slides
In rec.photo.equipment.35mm William Graham wrote:
Kodak used to make a "professional" film that would give you both slides and negatives back I don't remember how it worked....Obviously the film in the camera was either one or the other, and they had to make the, "other" in the lab. In those days they designated their film types with a number. Today, they give them some Mickey Mouse name, and so you don't know what you are really using.....It's all part of the "dumbing down" of the society that has taken place during my lifetime. There never was a film that offered both slides and negatives per se. There may have been a time when one could order slides made from negatives [thus "printing to slides"] or perhaps negatives made from slides [thus printing to negative film]. The fact is that slide "color reversal film" is by definition not a negative and further, the slide is the film itself, just as the negatives are the film itself ... you can't get both from the same roll of film. -- Thomas T. Veldhouse Key Fingerprint: 2DB9 813F F510 82C2 E1AE 34D0 D69D 1EDC D5EC AED1 |
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Scanning Thousands of Slides
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: In rec.photo.equipment.35mm William Graham wrote: Kodak used to make a "professional" film that would give you both slides and negatives back I don't remember how it worked....Obviously the film in the camera was either one or the other, and they had to make the, "other" in the lab. In those days they designated their film types with a number. Today, they give them some Mickey Mouse name, and so you don't know what you are really using.....It's all part of the "dumbing down" of the society that has taken place during my lifetime. There never was a film that offered both slides and negatives per se. There may have been a time when one could order slides made from negatives [thus "printing to slides"] or perhaps negatives made from slides [thus printing to negative film]. The fact is that slide "color reversal film" is by definition not a negative and further, the slide is the film itself, just as the negatives are the film itself ... you can't get both from the same roll of film. Hi Thomas... Way way back in the dusty dark corners of my memory I recall reading something, somewhere about a "dual film" film. Two layers of film sandwiched together so they'd be exposed simultaneously, one being reversal film and the other a plain jane negative. Having said that, never used it, nor even saw it offered for sale. Digging even further back, I'd like to suggest that it may have been Polaroid who was involved. Gonna google around a bit; see what comes up. Take care. Ken |
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