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  4 0 There are a ton of online places (I've used slides.com but there are alot). You send them slides and it's around .30 a slide (I remember when it used to be 6 bucks a slide way back when so it's a huge jump down) they scan them and you usually have the option to look at them online and pick which ones you wanna pay for (especially nice if you don't know how well they'll scan for older or damaged ones) then they either send you a disc back with the slides or you get a link to the full quality ones you can download. They also have retouch services for more, I just haven't use that side of things cuz I retouch my own. It's been a few years since I did it as I haven't used traditional photography for work documentation but I was happy with it. They used to also have services to make slides from digital files so if you needed to send out real slides and only have digital files you can have them made. I'll double check that they still do that and post back if they don't ( I hate that the box on qland mobile doesn't have a scroll bar and is hard to edit if you leave the entry box...) sublevelthree answered in Whatever 8 months ago | Report 3 comments by sublevelthree, Russ Campbell, NWEBS, and sublevelthree… 3 0 Yup they still do both. I haven't used this company but they have other format film scanning(120,super8etc) http://www.slidescanning.com/ My mom has used costcos services for old family slides and they looked fine, I just like that slides.com tells you their equipment (super high end way nicer than consumer scanners) and since images of my work, especially installation or work no longer in my hands is super crucial I went to them high res enough to reproduce much larger and super quick turn around. I worry a bit that Costco is just some employee jamming them in instead of carefully cleaning and making sure they're right sublevelthree commented 8 months ago | Report 0 0 I appreciate the info in your posts here. My boxes and notebooks of Kodachrome slides sit in storage and I had not even thought of converting even my prized ones. I think this winter I will get out the light table and start going through them. BTW, sublevelthree, time to choose an avatar! Russ Campbell, NWEBS commented 8 months ago | Report 0 0 Good luck hunting though your goodies. I know I need an avatar, but it's hard to do that on a phone. Right now q land is my smoke break vice. I cantos myself on the real Internet since I have to go outside my studio to do it. Once I'm done with my show I've been working my butt off on Ill do it ( it's on my list of things to do when I have a life again post oct 4 th). It will happen I promise sublevelthree commented 8 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  3 0 I rented a slide scanner from Glazers ( http://www.glazerscamera.com/glazers-camera-rentals.html ) If you have a lot of slides you might find yourself needing to camp out in front of the computer for a weekend with coffee and beer however - it takes time and effort. Being able to back up all those precious images and not have to worry that some day they will be lost in a fire is great thought. pairustwo answered in Whatever 8 months ago | Report 1 comment by sublevelthree… 0 0 I would definitely go this route over trying to do it o. A consumer grade scanner (even if you're lucky and have a light in the lid) I had no idea they rented scanners now days, great for me to pass On to the students as a resource when they no longer have the fancy ones at school. Do they have just one type or several? Is it a flat bed or the kind you drop a slide into a slot? sublevelthree commented 8 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  3 0 You can scan slides with a normal old flatbed scanner but it is definitely tedious and the quality is not going to be great if you blow up the slides too much because that starts to push the resolution/DPI limits of a cheap scanner. It's okay if you just want to put some of them on the web, but it's not really the way to go if you're trying to save them for posterity (and get them out of your garage!). There's nothing really remarkable about scanning a slide other than that they're really small. Just scan the slides (after cleaning them as best you can) and then use a program like Photoshop or GIMP to crop and enlarge them and do any color-correction necessary. You can scan more than one at a time, although you'll want to scan at the highest resolution your scanner will do, so a whole sheet of them might slow your computer to a crawl. The first few will probably take a long while to figure out (and you'll want to experiment with how much you can enlarge them and still have them look good), but once you figure it out you can probably do one or two a minute. Jack answered in Whatever 8 months ago | Report 1 comment by sublevelthree… 2 0 If you are using a normal scanner you need to back light them. Some home scanners have a light box in the lid but mist don't. If you have a small light box for looking at film you can try using that but it's awkward and tedious. You also want to change the target size and resolution if you want to blow it up. If you just scan the 1 inch square at maximum resolution the pixels just "stack" on top of themselves. So instead of doing 1" at 1200 dpi jump the target size (ie the size you want it to be) at like 8x10 at 600 dpi (which you could jump up double that size at 300 dpi for print outs. It will work out with more recorded information) I used to always just scan the largest number at actual size but the photo teacher at the college I work for says it's a common mistake and you can loose subtle areas of the image when you adjust it to a larger size later sublevelthree commented 8 months ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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