Re: Scanning slides - which route to take?
Hi,
I had about 1000 slides I wanted to digitise, I tried many and various methods of making light-boxes to use my flatbed scanner, none of which provided suitable quality output.
I eventually bought a piece of fine textured card about 3' x 2' and projected onto that and photographed them with my digital camera, it took a lot of work, the biggest problem was dust, didn't matter how well I cleaned the slides or the projector, there was always dust on the image, it wouldn't be noticed viewing the projected slides as normally done but in photos a different story.
These were old slides some over 40 years old, and in some the emulsion in the slides seemed to be breaking down and colours had faded greatly, so there was a mountain of work involved in cloning out dust spots, scratches and colour bleed creeping in from the edges and restoring the colours. Over all the end result was pretty fair, they were at least as good as ordinary scanned photographs, not Pro quality but at least I had been able to preserve them in digital format.
If you could buy or make an adaptor to directly photograph them I think with hindsight I would go that way.
Aussiejoe
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