I've discovered a new skill: Making Digital Images from Slides

[CNelson]

Outstanding images Donald....I have a number of slides that are gathering dust....perhaps I should take a second look. I doubt I have anything this nice.

If you ever get in the US in the San Francisco Bay area again, I would love to touch bases with you.

[jcuknz]

Christina . I rarely shot 35mm slides usually color negative except for special jobs when I used 5"x4" transparencies or slang 'Color trans'

I did buy a Thompson slide/negative copier with the idea of copying my color negs to digital but found the programme hard to work and fell back on a slide copier I made which uses my Nikon 5700, 5Mp which mens with a tight framing of the 36x24 a resolution of about 1500 ppi of subject.

Later I used my 10Mp Panasonic FZ50 to copy some quarter plates and found I could bend 5x4 cut film into the holder which resulted in the shot of the epidiascope

Using my 2 dioptre to bring focus closer and inside painted black.
It depends on how many you want to do for my few a simple makeshift is AOK with and editor to tidy up the 'rough edges'. Perhaps best is to go through the collection and decidee which are worth it.

[Kaye Leggett]

Donald. My dad was only showing me some slides last week on this nifty little portable device. I said he should digitalise them but I haven't a clue how to get started. Does you scanner have specific software for this process ? I am asking as one who uses a scanner which beeps at me when what I am trying to scan is not A4 sized, I can't imagine how loud it will beep if I put a slide on it and tell it to get on with the job ! You've guessed, I hate machines that beep at me just to let me and anyone else around know how incompetent I am.

[Donald]

Donald. My dad was only showing me some slides last week on this nifty little portable device. I said he should digitalise them but I haven't a clue how to get started. Does you scanner have specific software for this process ? I am asking as one who uses a scanner which beeps at me when what I am trying to scan is not A4 sized, I can't imagine how loud it will beep if I put a slide on it and tell it to get on with the job ! You've guessed, I hate machines that beep at me just to let me and anyone else around know how incompetent I am.

Kaye - You need a scanner that specifically states it can do slides. For the flat-bed type of scanner that the Epson V500 is, you need a light in the lid (i.e. above the slide) shining down through it, as well as in the base shining upwards. You then get a little tray into which you put the slides in order to align them underneath this top light.

With the Epson V500, the software came with it.

[jcuknz]

Before they caame out with 'slide' scanners people were organising a right angle 'tent' of white paper to reflect the light up and down through the adjacent slide ... obviously Donald's scanner is better than that.
Thom[p]son made an reasonably priced negatibe slide scanner which uses a 5Mp sensor giving about 1500 ppi of the standard slide. Mine has two trays, one for negatives and the other for slides. Depending on how you programme it it will turn 35mm color negatives into positive files. It cost me NZ$125. I have seen what looks like it on Amazon

I assume Kaye you are in the UK so I checked Amazon UK and found a whole page of the things .... mine looks like the Busbi
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_...ngJavascript=1

For stateside folk where the Bower looks a bit like mine.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...gative+copiers