On 13 Feb 06 at 8:09, John T Lonsdale wrote:
> ...Is there anyone within the USA who has the time, skill and energy to scan up to
> 100 slides for me, and send me the digital images in a format that perfectly
> replicates the slide? The latter is important as friends have scanned slides for me
> in the past and the images have been unusable, even unfixable in Photoshop.
Somewhere I've read (cue "uh-oh") that to scan slides or negatives properly, you need
special equipment, not just an attachment to a consumer-grade flatbed scanner.
I suggest you check around with local camera finishing ("one-hour photo") places and
see if any of them will offer you a good deal on converting your slides to Kodak
PhotoCD format. Walmart is a possibility.
Keep in mind that photofinishing equipment these days has digital guts and (at least in
theory) generating a digital copy of a slide is merely a matter of diverting digital
information to a CD. More or less. In principle.
So: your question would better be phrased "anyone with time, skill, energy, and
*equipment*..."
Another possibility: use a digital SLR with a slide-duplicating apparatus attached. By
that I mean a good macro lens with 1:1 magnification and a special holder for the
slides. But this may not work since the digital image captured is significantly smaller
than a 35mm negative.
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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
on beautiful Vancouver Island