Copy Your Old Slides The Easy Way!

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Enjoy the slides from yesteryear!

Comments

[FLOTUBR]

Clever!!
I have the slide frame for my Epson 4490 but have not done anything with it because the Tiiiiiiiime involved in scanning.
BTW - Have you tried projecting the slides and photographing them off the screen??  You could use the slide trays and really speed up the copy process.
Keep Inventing,
Flotubr

[jedikalimero]

Projecting the slides onto a screen and photographing the screen gives a much worse quality that photographing the back-lighted slide.
When you project the slide, you are looking at a second generation image, a copy of the original slide and there is a loose of light because you are seeing the reflection of the light beams in the screen. Also, you can't exactly centre the camera to take an undistorted image because the exact centre viewpoint is taken by the projector itself.

When you use the method described here, you are taking a photo directly from the original slide so you obtain a second generation copy, not third and this is as best as you can get with ANY method.

Essentially, you are doing the same a slide scanner does except you are taking the whole image at once instead of line by line with the scanning head (and this is why the scanner has much higher resolution).

If you set your "scanning studio" right and use a good digital camera, you can match the quality of a home or office slide scanner.

Also, if your camera has a remote controller (be it a cabled one or, much better, an infra-red or radio one), use it since this will avoid any vibration in the image from the action of the finger on the shutter button. All semi-professional and up SLR cameras have an input for a remote controller or can be controlled from the USB port. Many consumer cameras have an infra-red controller.

[Creativeman]

Thanks for the input. I have not tried your idea, and am curious as to how that quality would work....will look into it. Cman

[hobojangles]

This is great. I don't own any slides, but this is a nice display of ingenuity.

[Creativeman]

Thanks, hobo....Cman