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You can buy a dedicated slide scanner, or buy a regular flatbed scanner that comes with a slide holder. I used a regular scanner and converted hundreds of my father's images from slides to digital files, then put them on CDs for my sisters.
The dedicated slide scanners are usually easier and faster to use for slides than the flatbed units. One critical factor may be the condition of the slides. Often the scanners units that have ICE built in will save you tons of time and make really great scans. No matter what route you go you're in for a lot of work and you need to also take into consideration hard drive space. You are going to be dealing with file sizes that can reach 100mb plus per slide depending on how much resolution you scan them at. So also look into one of the external hard drives for storage. I often see them for about $80 for 250gb (after a rebate).
Cheers,
rfs
I use a Nikon Cool Scan 5 and it works great. It will not work with xp 64 or 64 bit computers from my understanding yet. I run mine through a mac ibook, yes I bought this laptop just to run it, and I do this with 1 gig or ram. These things all eat ram no matter what you purchase.
It might be simpler and more economical to just take the slides to a pro lab and have them do the scanning for you.
Unless you intend to do a lot of scanning in the future why bother with the expense of buying a quality scanner?
If you do decide to take them to a lab, I'd recommend that you start out by just having them scan a few slides so you can judge the quality of thier work. But most likely their scans will be better then what you could do yourself unless you invest lots of money....and time learning how to do it.
Dean;
That's very good advice, why make the investment to scan father's slides when the same could be done by a professional lab. Of course, it would be even wiser to get a quotation for certain number of slides. Tha lab's rates may be set for peple who bring a 1 to 3 rolls of film, but if he tells them he has few hundred slides they may give him a price break.
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Originally Posted by eoym
It might be simpler and more economical to just take the slides to a pro lab and have them do the scanning for you.
Unless you intend to do a lot of scanning in the future why bother with the expense of buying a quality scanner?
If you do decide to take them to a lab, I'd recommend that you start out by just having them scan a few slides so you can judge the quality of thier work. But most likely their scans will be better then what you could do yourself unless you invest lots of money....and time learning how to do it.
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