Advice from camera buffs please?

[Graham . Shand]

quote Barbara Eden:Could someone please advise me of the best way to transfer photographic slides to a computer – I have rather a lot of boxes to do, so any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂

Thanks in anticipation 🙂 🙂

Barbara
You can transfer using a slide transer unit. other units are available, but as a guide
http://www.maplin.co.uk

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[Chris Wool]

some scanners have the facility built in even cheaper ones but a bit slow if you have lots to do.

if the slide film are still in strips they can be scanned at some high street shops.
if mounted then becomes a longer job.

might be a idea to have Good sized prints made from the slides to keep a lot better than on a hard disk

[Barbara Eden]

Thanks for the replies Graham and Chris 🙂
They are, as you say Chris, with frames – the sort you used to put in projectors.
Thanks for the heads up as to having prints rather than on disk Chris, as disk was the way I was going to go 😳

Barbara

[Harry Cleary]

Get the company that prints them to save them on a disc as well! They’ll be scanning them anyways. Job done, simples 😀

[RayRosher]

http://www.scancafe.com/
give them a try
if you look up photofocus.com i think that Scott gets you a discount I think it’s 20% off

[Barbara Eden]

Thanks Harry and Ray, but this has to be a D I Y project, as there are so many (approx 4 -500) all old family slides from way back.
I knew about the scanners that Chris mentioned, but hoped there might be something out there that would do more than three or four at a time.

But your input is greatly appreciated, many thanks 🙂 🙂
Barbara

[Chris Wool]

barbara the problem is the size of the slide.
scan it at 300 dpi and you can’t blow it up much, when i used to do it in the early days of digital a 35mm slide was scanned at 2800 dpi by a dedicated nikon scanner.
i put a film through my nikon F5 film camera the other week had it processed normally and then set about scanning some of the negs on a epson flat bed with light hood. what a pain, slow and not as good as i hoped.

chris

[Barbara Eden]

Hi Chris, I knew it was going to be a long process 🙁
I just don’t like to see them ‘molding’ away here in their boxes, and to be honest, would be quite a nostalgic trip for me – suppose I could get a projector, but not the same somehow 🙁

Barbara

[Hugh Potter]

crikey, i remember slides, my mum has about 10hours worth of them which used to go in the old projector with a side to side loading tray, no fancy wheel for us!

fond memories indeed, although it was usually embarrassing to see the pics of me in a bath or something back then!

Babs,

Buy a projector and make an evening of it, more fun than all huddling around some glossy pics! think i might pop round my mums later and bring her and the projector over for tea!

[Barbara Eden]

Hello Hugh
10 hours worth – I wish – more like 10 days here 🙂 🙂 Or a lifetime of my Dad’s love of cameras!!
Sadly, as I’m the only one left now ( I inherited these recently from my brother) they’re only really of interest to me, and having photo’s to look at/ put on the wall seems right for me.
Good to see you back here though Hugh – been missing for a while- new home etc. Hope things are going well for you 🙂 🙂
Barb

[Hugh Potter]

not too bad thanks Barb,

less hours in a day to do what i need to do now so not on the web quite so much! sorry to hear about your brother.

as for the slides, i’m prob underestimating, mum had the camera as a 21st birthday present and until about 10-15yrs ago, was still getting pics developed as slides, that’s 30 odd years worth, i remember a small brown suitcase filled with little yellow plastic kodak cases, 10hrs is probably understating the time it would take to view all, it was about all we could take as kids though, couple of late evenings of 4-5hrs each was mind numbing at the time! quite interested to see them again now!

Hugh

[Barbara Eden]

Good to hear things aren’t too bad Hugh- no time for fishing though eh? 🙂
I’m definitely underestimating at 500 slides, as I have 4 ‘proper’ boxes sitting here, 2×100 and 2×175 plus a cardboard box full of those little plastic Kodak boxes.
Lost my Dad before my eldest was born, and she’s 45 now!! But my lovely brother never threw anything away 🙂
It was a nightmare sorting everything, but worth it for all the ‘treasures’ I have now.

Barb

[RayRosher]

quote Hugh Potter:

Buy a projector and make an evening of it, more fun than all huddling around some glossy pics! think i might pop round my mums later and bring her and the projector over for tea!

Sorry Hugh
I have to disagree, their are literally Billions of photos, slides etc, molding away in old boxes and suitcase that could be on something like photo-bucket,
As you know! Today Digital photographs can have all of the details in exif data,
Old photographs are only as good as the memory of the people who still remember the faces on the photos,

When that generation dies! so does the faces on the photographs
Then that photograph becomes another casualty of don’t know who this is so bin it,

Years ago photography was such an expensive hobby! if someone had taken the time to photograph something then it must have been important to them,
And if it’s in your possession then it should be important to you!
After all it should give you an idea of your history,

And who your going to finish up looking like when your old and decrepit, I’m already their apparently 🙄

Just because it’s a photograph of someone in your past, doesn’t mean it’s of no interest to anyone else,

It would seem that in today’s society? if you have a decent SLR and just start taking pictures willy-nilly some would be traffic//warden is going to approach you and ask you what your doing,

After all you might have an Exocet missile hidden in your 500mm lens,
Heaven forbid that you might actually just want to take pictures,
My other Tee-shirt reads

I am a Photographer
Not a terrorist

Shit sorry guys, Were the hell did this rant come from.

Oh! I know, some Idiot in George Square asking me what I was doing taking pictures of buildings at, Jaunty angles ( I like that phrase)
OK even longer rant I’m going to stop now 😀

Oh Man! I’ve got to start drinking less Coffee

[Hugh Potter]

some fair points Roy,

i’ll therefore consider doing them!

as for pics… yes, i agree, was taking pics of the millenium stadium, also at jaunty angles like yourself, and was asked by some hi-viz’d up chap what i was up to, this is despite being in a Wales rugby top, wales wooly hat and scarf, on match day, hmmm, he didn’t tell me to stop so not sure what he thought i was doing!

ps,
got a much smaller lense than you if yours is 500mm, mine only goes to 400 🙁

[RayRosher]

quote Hugh Potter:

some fair points Roy,

i’ll therefore consider doing them!

as for pics… yes, i agree, was taking pics of the millenium stadium, also at jaunty angles like yourself, and was asked by some hi-viz’d up chap what i was up to, this is despite being in a Wales rugby top, wales wooly hat and scarf, on match day, hmmm, he didn’t tell me to stop so not sure what he thought i was doing!

ps,
got a much smaller lense than you if yours is 500mm, mine only goes to 400 🙁

Na! Hugh I have to disagree again!
it wasn’t the camera that did it it was the rugby gear. :lol1:

[Mo Gillis-Coates]

Just thought I would add a twopenneth here.. i do a lot of slide, negative and would you believe glass plate image printing.

My machine of choice for this is an EPSON V600 flatbed. It’s a dedicated scanner but I can do up to 8 slides at a time and negatives (it illuminates from both sides of the negative) gives me fantastic high res images at 400 pi an absolute must for me.

I have recently been scanning some 1940’s glass plate images and the photos I get from them are just perfect every time.

It’s worth checking out if your doing quantity

Mo

[Barbara Eden]

Thank you Mo, I’ll look that up.
Greatly appreciate all your advice folks :thanks2:

Barbara

[Richard Wills]

A dedicated film scanner will do a better job than any of the consumer flat bed scanners. Try finding a second user Nikon Coolscan 4000, or even better, a 5000. Either of these will take a bulk loader for twenty or so mounted 35mm frames. The 5000 certainly has digital ice (dust and scratch remover), and I think the 4000 does as well. (D-Ice can be a but funny with Kodachromes). Load up a batch, and leave them to run over night.

Having said all that, if the viewing is only for "on screen" or small print, then the Epson V600 (or older 750) will do an OK job – you just have to load up the frames into the holders. Watch out for the focusing on some of the older card mount slides.

HTH
Richard (who has been scanning on his Imacon 949 today…)

[Richard Martin]

quote RayRosher:

quote Hugh Potter:

It would seem that in today’s society? if you have a decent SLR and just start taking pictures willy-nilly some would be traffic//warden is going to approach you and ask you what your doing,

After all you might have an Exocet missile hidden in your 500mm lens,
Heaven forbid that you might actually just want to take pictures,
My other Tee-shirt reads

I am a Photographer
Not a terrorist
(oh i swore !) sorry guys, Were the hell did this rant come from.

Oh! I know, some Idiot in George Square asking me what I was doing taking pictures of buildings at, Jaunty angles ( I like that phrase)
OK even longer rant I’m going to stop now 😀

Oh Man! I’ve got to start drinking less Coffee

You into urbex by any chance??

[RayRosher]

quote Richard Martin:quote RayRosher:quote Hugh Potter:Oh Man! I’ve got to start drinking less Coffee

You into urbex by any chance??

Not Exactly!
Although I do like the Idea of some of the More secret underground buildings and their history,
Getting access can be a bit of a bugger as most of the time these buildings are still owned by the DOD
As with most things H&S stops me more often than not from gaining access to older buildings. Dam them!
Old derelict Hospitals are brilliant for getting the correct atmosphere, Anyway sorry wrong forum for this kind of discussion,

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