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Chat => Tech Chat => Topic started by: renluop on July 22, 2018, 11:45:48 AM
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Our eldest child reaches 50 soon and a grandchild has asked us to sort out some photos.
Many of the earliest years are on slides, and I am thinking of the best way to produce 6x4s from those slides. Is there a way, easy enough for old Ren, or a cheap way via the commercial path?
Multifunction is Canon Pixma MG6851.
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You need a slide scanner to convert the slides to .jpg files for printing and storing. I've no experience of these devices, but they're readily available from Amazon and other places for ~£50.
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An idea, if I want to do a lot, but of that I'm not to sure. :(
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I did put a cheap scanner on my letter to Santa, circa 6 or 7 years ago, with an eye to converting a boxfull of inherited family slides.
It did work, but I was dissapointed by quality. Everthing I scanned had awful colour casts, though the originals looked fine on a (vintage!) slide viewer. I have never got around to scanning all these slides but if I do, I’d probably explore commercial services options, rather than pay more for a scanner I will never use again...
If you do decide to try a commercial service, I’d suggest you dip a toe in the water first, with just a handful of slides. Just in case they are no better than my Amazon cheapie. :-X
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My parents past away a few years ago and they were avid photographers and cine-film shooters.
To scan their slide collection, I purchased an Epson V550 Photo scanner. It specifically has a slide option (and carrier) - scanning only a handful at time, but in amazing quality. The Epson software automatically corrects for most colour changes that can occur over time. For negatives, it can do 12 at a time.
I'd also invest in a goat's-hair brush, available on Amazon. You need a way to remove all the dust that accumulates over the years - and also eventually accumulates on the scanning glass. Obviously even the smallest bit of dust gets blown-up in size if not removed.
15,000 scans later and it's still going well! (And 300+ cine films... but that's another story.)