Computer device for making copies of old slides ???

Willow · Post by **Willow** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:44 am

Hi this overlaps with computer so I hope I am ok posting this question. Can any one advise on the best way I might make - digital copies of slides (old slide film). I have a bundle of old slide I would like to look at but rather than buy an old slide projector - I would prefer to get my hands something I could attach to a PC. Any tips appreciated thanks

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 11:24 am

Lots of scanners available for the very task, but the money you spend will depend on how many slides you have and how fast you want them scanned!!!!

If you are talking 35mm here

https://www.google.co.uk/#q=slide+scann ... 80&bih=920

If I had lots, I'd be tempted for a non-computer version, somthing like this:

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electro ... d:17268676

You drop the slides in, bang an SD card in and click 'go'.

You can then edit them all later.

northwales4u · Post by **northwales4u** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 5:54 pm

I've got an ION Film 2 PC that I picked up on ebay (can't remember how much but it was cheap) - it takes 35mm or 110mm slides and its dead easy to use but a bit time consuming

Willow · Post by **Willow** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:43 pm

Great ! Thanks for that they look like just the job - Less hardware needed then I expected. I shall read up on all three and see which gives the best quality scan / largest number of pixels.

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:19 pm

Depends what you want to do with them.....larger pixels don't mean better images in all cases, just bigger file sizes!!!

MattHDiy · Post by **MattHDiy** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:41 am

I would also recommend you look in to the scanning software, VueScan.
I had a Minolta slide / film scanner, the scans it did were "ok" however when i upgraded to Windows 7 i could not get any drivers for it.

VueScan has its own drivers for 1000's of scanners, and actually produced much better scans, all i ended up doing was scanning & cropping. Easy as pie

tombarry · Post by **tombarry** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:39 pm

Epson with a film /slide scanner and the software I think is much better

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