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A non-scanner method of digitizing old slides
Authored by: jt777 on May 09, '06 12:32:28AM

I should mention one other thing besides the slide adapter. If you really need good quality from slides and don't want to spend money or time on doing it yourself, call a local pro photo/color lab and see if they can help. A lot of them offer some kind of slide scanning to CD-ROM service. I check every few years and it seems to run about USD$1.00 to $2.00 for a 3 megapixel scan. Sometimes they offer better prices in certain quantities. You can also pay more to get higher resolution scans. It's been a little while since I checked, though.

As for slide adapters, there is the Nikon ES-1 for a specific F-mount lens, the ES-E28 for coolpix cameras, and also the Canon FP-100 which looks great.

I haven't used any of them personally. Do you research. Some require extra gear, like a specific lens and extension tube, etc.



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A non-scanner method of digitizing old slides
Authored by: Anonymous on May 09, '06 07:26:33AM

Some people following this thread may already know of the discussion of this topic over on Macintouch, but just in case you don't here's the link:

http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/scanners/topic4229.html

JP



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