Info on putting 35mm slides onto disc??

[PG409]

Has anyone on here done this??
Checking locally all the photo shops want 99c each
whether they make a print or put it on a disc.
I know you can buy a scanner to do this, but I am
assuming it is quite labor intensive.....
Any thoughts??

[Cword]

I've done it.

40 Reels last year.

If you're archiving old cardboard mounted slides you have to use a flat bed scanner. (The automated slide scanners are only good with plastic mounts, cardboard mounts jam and fill 'em with lint)

I use an Epson Perfection 700. I can load 12 slides at a time.

Each cycle requires;
Clean all 12 slides
Clean the scanner platten
Load the slide try in the scanner
hit go on the scanning software.
Go away for 1/2 hour
During the 1/2 hour the scanner will scan each slide and store it as a separate file.

repeat

I'm scanning High resolution, each slide becomes an image 3600 by 2289 pixels

Here's one (find mike), I won't embed the image due to it's size.
http://1149.ca/cdnrodder/S4-118.jpg

Mike

[PG409]

Mike

Thanks very much for the insightfull post. I will now take a step back
and regroup. At least I now know the various options to take.

Cheers :)

Keith

[hotroddchick22]

Mike, is that you in the brown sweater standing in the back? or are you the guy with the orangey-brown hat, half-crouching in the front?

[Cword]

Good eye Ashley,

The brown sweater is my dad.
I'm the half crouch.
My brother is in the picture too.

That's July 1977, near the Floe lake trail head on Highway 93

[hotroddchick22]

Good eye Ashley,

The brown sweater is my dad.
I'm the half crouch.
My brother is in the picture too.

That's July 1977, near the Floe lake trail head on Highway 93

I could pick that smile out anywhere. Is your brother crouching on the left side, looking your way?

[Cword]

Yep

Now for bonus points; Which relative of mine took the picture?

[hotroddchick22]

Yep

Now for bonus points; Which relative of mine took the picture?

Would that be your mom?!

[Digger_Dave]

I started converting my 35 year collection of slides to digital images about a year or so ago. (with some tips from Mike)

After the first 800 slides; I re-thought the idea, and cleaned up the old slide projector.
(most of them were only of interest to me or my family anyway!)

[Cword]

Would that be your mom?!

Nope

hint
"When he took the picture, he wasn't related to me"

[hotroddchick22]

Nope

hint
"When he took the picture, he wasn't related to me"

Tricky Question! Your father-in-law! Lol!

[Cword]

Yep,
He was my Scout Leader.