Slide Scanning request - maybe off topic
Rodger Whitlock (Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:17:06 PST)
On 13 Feb 06 at 8:09, John T Lonsdale wrote:
...Is there anyone within the USA who has the time, skill and energy to scan up to
100 slides for me, and send me the digital images in a format that perfectly
replicates the slide? The latter is important as friends have scanned slides for me
in the past and the images have been unusable, even unfixable in Photoshop.
Somewhere I've read (cue "uh-oh") that to scan slides or negatives properly, you need
special equipment, not just an attachment to a consumer-grade flatbed scanner.
I suggest you check around with local camera finishing ("one-hour photo") places and
see if any of them will offer you a good deal on converting your slides to Kodak
PhotoCD format. Walmart is a possibility.
Keep in mind that photofinishing equipment these days has digital guts and (at least in
theory) generating a digital copy of a slide is merely a matter of diverting digital
information to a CD. More or less. In principle.
So: your question would better be phrased "anyone with time, skill, energy, and
*equipment*..."
Another possibility: use a digital SLR with a slide-duplicating apparatus attached. By
that I mean a good macro lens with 1:1 magnification and a special holder for the
slides. But this may not work since the digital image captured is significantly smaller
than a 35mm negative.
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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
on beautiful Vancouver Island