It may interest some members to know that I have been able to transfer hundreds of 35mm slides to digital format at NO COST. All of my photos dating back almost to the battle of Hastings are now saved on memory stick and DVD.Basically I simply took a digital photo of each one using a simple jig which was made from scraps of mdf etc.Quality is plenty good enough for general viewing and for reproduction. If any interest I will post details on forum
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Derek,
Another way which i use is to use a good quality scanner which has a 35mm slide insert. My Epson scanner will scan 5 slides at a time. I save them into one of my computer software, such as Photo Gallery or Photoshop. I can then just print out the ones i want.
The quality is really good, any imperfections can be sorted in Photoshop.
My wife has just informed me that her father used your method of photographing slides 40 years ago. However in his case of course they were prints.
Hamer
Another way which i use is to use a good quality scanner which has a 35mm slide insert. My Epson scanner will scan 5 slides at a time. I save them into one of my computer software, such as Photo Gallery or Photoshop. I can then just print out the ones i want.
The quality is really good, any imperfections can be sorted in Photoshop.
My wife has just informed me that her father used your method of photographing slides 40 years ago. However in his case of course they were prints.
Hamer
Hello Hamer, thanks for your comments! I should point out that if I had chosen to paint my gadget black, it would have increased the cost to about 30 pence!My point was that I didn't need to buy equipment to enable me to archive all of my slides.Regards, Derek
Joby,I've just dug out the gismo. Basically it's a framework which will hold a slide(behind a cut out) at the optimum distance from your digital camera to be in focus.
As my camera is not very high tech, I needed to place a magnifying lens halfway along the frame. A sheet of white paper with a light shining on it will give enough illumination for the slide.I set my camera to 'macro' and zoomed to x4 to get an in-focus copy.
I am not sure, but I think that you could get focus without a lens halfway if your camera will focus in sharp enough. My lens comes from a slide viewer, I'm afraid I don't know where you might obtain one if needed.Please ignore the lack of finish etc.
This was made out of scraps as an experiment, but as it worked I didn't bother with a smarter one!
As my camera is not very high tech, I needed to place a magnifying lens halfway along the frame. A sheet of white paper with a light shining on it will give enough illumination for the slide.I set my camera to 'macro' and zoomed to x4 to get an in-focus copy.
I am not sure, but I think that you could get focus without a lens halfway if your camera will focus in sharp enough. My lens comes from a slide viewer, I'm afraid I don't know where you might obtain one if needed.Please ignore the lack of finish etc.
This was made out of scraps as an experiment, but as it worked I didn't bother with a smarter one!
Here's a sample of one of the copied slides (at least 35 yrs old)Joby,I've just dug out the gismo. Basically it's a framework which will hold a slide(behind a cut out) at the optimum distance from your digital camera to be in focus.
As my camera is not very high tech, I needed to place a magnifying lens halfway along the frame. A sheet of white paper with a light shining on it will give enough illumination for the slide.I set my camera to 'macro' and zoomed to x4 to get an in-focus copy.
I am not sure, but I think that you could get focus without a lens halfway if your camera will focus in sharp enough. My lens comes from a slide viewer, I'm afraid I don't know where you might obtain one if needed.Please ignore the lack of finish etc.
This was made out of scraps as an experiment, but as it worked I didn't bother with a smarter one!
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