Comments on: Digitizing 35mm slides without a slide scanner

By: Jesper Bonde

Jesper Bonde — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:55:51 +0000

I just made my own 35mm automatic slide scanner based on a Nikon camera and Kodak projector which are tied together with a control box I have designed for the purpose. It runs perfectly and scans my slides fast and easy – so the method is highly recommendable. You can see a description with pictures and an equipment list here http://www.avidia.dk/hardware.html

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:49:43 +0000

To cut down on the time it takes to scan your negatives make sure the scanner you buy is capable of batch processing. This could cut down your processing time by a factor of 5 or 6. The prices for scanners continue to come down and the tech just keeps getting better.

Great info here though if you fon’t want to go the buy route.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:52:28 +0000

It has been a while since this post and technology has hopefully evolved enough to produce slide scanners of much better quality. There are, however, some requirements that need to be taken care of in favor of having a good quality scan of a slide or film.

Some tips may be found here:
http://slidescannertips.com/flatbed-slide-scanner/

Michael

By: Joe Fajerman

Joe Fajerman — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:29:38 +0000

Doesnt this take a long time for each slide? If you have a few thousand to deal with, you wnat something really snappy. Any suggestions? Joe

By: Marcos Nogueira

Marcos Nogueira — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:25:12 +0000

You can’t imagine how I’m hapy to see I gona save my 4.000 old slides from 1967 til now, using this simple sistem… Tanks and sorry my english… I’m from Brazil.

By: J fajerman

J fajerman — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:37:20 +0000

Does not doing it this way take a lot of time. If oine has thousands ofslides, it could take tears.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:54:05 +0000

Hello,

What do you think of this thing:

VuPoint 35mm Negative Film Slide Digital Converter

http://www.amazon.com/VuPoint-FS-C1-VP-Silde-Digital-Converter/dp/B000V7CPJG

Thanks for the shoot the slides idea,
steve

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:59:59 +0000

I basically copied this idea – but added an improvised method to get even light behind the image – instead of a lamp under my lightbox, I lay my monitor flat (showing a plain white desktop background), but the lightbox window on top of that, and slowly adjusted the brightness down until I got good results.
Would never have thought of this without your great blog post – thanks.

By: tim

tim — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:51:26 +0000

Easy enough to buy one. See my earlier comment about that.

By: Don Hubbard.

Don Hubbard. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:03:01 +0000

Taking the slide with the digital camera to transfer them to the computer is my aim. I don’t have a slide scanner at present but am considering a purchase. The idea of taking the slide looks very tempting. How do you make a Light Box or do you have to purchase this piece of equipment???