On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:01:44 -0400, Warren & Nancy
wrote:

I used to take a bunch of slides. I mounted a lot of them in glass. Is there a
good way (easy) to scan them?

Depends...
It depends on the size of the mounts, what you have available to scan
them, what resolution you want, and how much you are willing to
spend.

I have thousands of aviation slides (about half are in film strips, a
quarter in commercial mounts, and a quarter in plastic mounts) and use
one of the older HP S-20 scanners which are no longer available as far
as I know. It'll go 2400 dpi. which shows the grain in ASA 400, but
is a bit inadequate for ASA 100. It also will scan a print to 5 X 7
and was one of the handiest scanners on the market "to my way of
thinking". I developed my own slides for years as it gave me a quick
turn around, was inexpensive, and simple. I used the Jobo E-6 3
solution process instead of the miserable umpteen step Kodak E-6
process. I made the change right after sending in about 8 36 exposure
rolls to kodak and finding all of them had a bad case of mold when I
got them back. (looks like a whole bunch of tiny black irregular
shaped spots on the photo)
Buying film in 100 foot rolls and doing my own developing gave a total
cost for 36 exp rolls of about $3. High quality plastic mounts added
about another dollar. I think the overall cost may be about double
that now.

BTW, scanning a slide at 2400 or 4,000 dpi creates a very large file.

There are scanners on the market that will swallow the big 2 X 2 glass
mounts, but I don't know of any that are inexpensive.

OTOH "slide copiers" for *some* cameras can be found that work quite
well... AS with the old film method of copying this works the same but
with a digital camera. You probably won't find an adapter unless you
have one of the "upper level" digital cameras.

The best bet would be to ask this question on rec.photo.digital

Like most groups there is a high noise to information level and a few
loose nuts, along with some "left field" information, but overall
it's a helpful (and knowledgeable) bunch.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)
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