Picture bleg
The Mrs. family has some old slides. We’d like to convert them to digital photos. They have this gizmo to do that at Amazon. Anyone every try it?
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December 18th, 2008 at 9:55 am
did not use this one but when I scanned the old family pictures I got one of the $500 (ball park) nikon models off of ebay then resold it when done…
when I first tried scanning slides I used a older hp model that did not have scratch/dust correction and you could spend all day fixing them… Digital ICE is worth it’s weight in gold… when you are done with it re-sell it for about the same price… basically your renting it.
December 18th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Ditto on the eBay rental advice. Most of these compact slide scanners are USB Powered, and that power supply just isn’t enough to sufficiently light a slide. Slide film requires being lit up to a particular point in order to achieve correct color, and contrast.
My mother was given one of the 99$ viewpoint slide scanners for Christmas, suspiciously in an identical looking plastic housing design, and the picture quality ‘inhaled rapidly’ Images that were formerly vivid and bright ended up muddy and lifeless.
December 18th, 2008 at 11:32 am
I sent off ~150 negatives to Scan Cafe; I’ve heard that none of the slide scanners you can afford are really worth it.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I haven’t seen great results from the home versions.
Even self-powered requires a bunch of picking at each image.
The best results were from a high-quality flat-bed scanner with a slide adapter that blocked out everything but the slide.
And it still takes a lot of time.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I have used the Nikon slide and filmstrip scanner and thought the results were fine. Perhaps I’m not as particular about quality as some. It is a slow process even with a dedicated slide scanner.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
They work well enough. Count your slides, get the rate to scan slides at your local photo hut, and do the math.
December 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
What _Jon said above.
*If* you want to do it your self, get a decent flatbed scanner with slide adapter. You’ll have to fiddle with the settings a bit to get good results but you’ll actually get good results. None of the “slide scanners” I’ve seen have been worth a shit.
Scan tips
HP slide scan tips
How to Scan 35 mm Slides On a Flatbed Scanner
December 18th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I have the Canon Canoscan 8800F, which I picked up for less than $200. It has done a fantastic job of scanning the old family slides that I inherited, as well as negatives. The only setting I ever touched was the dpi of the scans (since some just weren’t worth the time of a higher rez scan).
Well worth the money, and far more versatile than those $100 slide scanners (and I have yet to hear anything good about those cheap slide scanners anyway).
December 18th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
We have a slide scanner, but when we had to do several hundred, it was a lot easier just to have the Costco photolab do them. Cheap too.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
List with prices of all the slide scanning services
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=phRG-JoD0f6N8DrY8b8ZGLw
December 18th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
I’ve never scanned slides, but if it’s anything like scanning photos I’d gladly pay someone else to do it. 🙂