Any help on 35mm slide scanner???
Hello,
I have MacBook and run Snow Leopard. I have about 500 or so slides from my parents, which I would like to view and scan digitally. I seem to be some trouble locating a scanner which is Mac compatible. Costco has a couple of choices, but the reviews are not positive.
I would like to be able scan, and then print if need be or save to disk and share.
Any thoughts/advice/tips are appreciated!!
Thanks!!
Jane
Jane:
Welcome to Apple Discussions. I have hundreds of slides and have searched for reasonably priced scanners without much luck. I discovered that Walgreens will scan your slides for you, and burn them to a CD. If you do 10 at a time they will cost you $2.99. The price goes up after 10 but you can take in as many batches of 10 you like. 200 slides will cost less than $60. The .jpeg images will be burned to disk, as previously noted, and you can import them into iPhoto and view them, or print as you wish.
Good luck.
cornelius
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35mm Slide Scanner Suggestions
Greetings All - I am looking for 35mm slide scanner recommendations in order to scan in ~1400 slides that have been in our family for many years that won't 'break the bank'. I'd rather have a piece of hardware that is dedicated for this task as opposed to a new scanner but all recommendations are helpful. When it is all complete I'll probably eBAY or otherwise dispose of the scanner in a similar manner.
Thanks in advance.Nikon Coolscan 5000 ED with Slide Feeder SF-210.
http://nikon.ca/en/Product.aspx?m=16314
Not sure what you mean by "break the bank"... There are services out there that will scan your slides in bulk volume. Scanning 1400 slides is not an easy job since it is tedious. You can only fill this slide feeder with 50 slides at once, come back a few hours later, drop in another stack. -
Hi,
Can anyone recommend a scanner or other device for old family slides that must converted in a digital format and saved in a DVD and external hard drive?
Thanks
WandafromqcDon't even think about scanning thousands of slides yourself. If you have 5000 family slides, it's overwhelmingly likely that just 500 of them will give a highly effective representation of the whole collection, and will include not only all of the best ones but many of the second-best ones too. Scanning them all, or even half of them, will consume your entire summer and would probably give you and your sibs a lot more pictures than any of you really wants to keep.
It used to be true that scanning slides halfway decently required an expensive dedicated film scanner -- consumer flatbed scanners just weren't up to the task. That's no longer true. I have an under-$200 Epson Perfection V500 Photo flatbed scanner that outperforms the $2000+ Nikon film scanner I've had for 9 years in slide and negative scanning, and the software that came with it enables me to scan several (6 if I remember right) slides at once and automatically saves them as separate image files. That makes it much faster to use than the film scanner, and of course I can also use it for scanning flat reflective material, such as the more than 1000 old photographic prints and post cards I've digitized for my local historical society. The film scanner couldn't have done any of that. -
Looking for Pixma plus 35mm slide scanning!
Hello.
I used to have a Canon Pixma printer with a 35mm scanning facility built in to the lid. Broke down some time ago, unfortunately.
And now Canon don't do Pixma printers with 35mm scanning.
Been scouring the internet for an MG8250 or equivalent, with no luck. I don't WANT to change from Pixma. I think it's possibly the best colour print system you can buy, but I do need that 35mm slide scanning facility, so any suggestions as to an alternative product, i.e. a good quality colour printer (plus copier plus flatbed scanner plus 35mm slide scanner), offering similar print quality as the Pixma?
I suppose one alternative is to buy a stand-alone 35mm neg scanner, but I also have a number of ancient (1890s) large b&w negatives so a 35mm-only carrier wouldn't do - I need something where I can use bits of tape etc. to hold odd-sized films.
Thanks for reading, and I hope someone has a suggestion or two.
Allen.Aside from looking at the pretty transitions, did you read
the rest of the
page? See the part where it says "Step 1 - copy and
paste....."
Then do Step 2. It just can't get any easier than that.
Read the bit underneath step 2 and it tells you how the
script can be used
multiple times on a page - Again - step 1: you give it a new
name in the
javascript file, and add the names and paths of the images
for the
consecutive slides you wish to display. Then, again, Step 2 -
you call the
slideshow somewhere on your page.
Without sounding condescending, sit back, read the
instructions again, and
have a go at implementing them into your page.
Upload your efforts, post a link to the page, and we'll be
able to help you
further if you need it.
You can describe what you have, how you want it to work, but
until we see a
page live, its a bit hard to help further.
Last resort, spring for a paid solution to do it all for you
(which I highly
recommend) -
http://www.projectseven.com/products/galleries/ssm/index.htm
Brendon
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> Brendon-
>
> >I've used this one many times before with good
success:
>
> I don't know how to use this, its a bunch of code.
>
> 1. Do I C&P this and paste it into my page? Where on
the page?
> 2. I actually want to have four separate slide shows
happening at once on
> the
> same page. Will this code allow me to do that?
> 3. Right now I have four photos in-line horizontally in
non-css table. I
> want
> those four to interchange as a slow dissolve slide show.
How do I specify
> that
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> Thanks
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Scanning 35mm slides to create slide show
My objective is to scan 35mm slides and create a presentable slide show for viewing on a computer monitor and TV. (regular TV)
I am using an Epson 4490 Perfection scanner and Photoshop Elements 2 software.
This should be relatively easy, but I'm running into difficulty and can find nothing in the "help" section of the software that answers my question.
How would you set the scanning options to obtain a good quality scan, without the software automatically cropping the slide, and being of good quality when viewed on the monitor/TV?
After completing the scans, I'll need to create the slide shows and save them to disc. Any suggestions or information you could offer in these areas would also be helpful:
- Tutorials for creating slide shows, included in the Elements 2 program or elsewhere.
- What would be the best quality disc to save these to?
Thanks so much for the helpLauraly.....
I haven't actually done what you intend but here's some things to consider.
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If your scanning the slides you may want to go flat out so that the images could also be printed out sometime in the future in which case you may want to scan at something like 3200 or 6400 pixels/inch.
Once you've scanned the images you'll need a program to make the slide show. Photoshop Elements 5 can do this but in my opinion Proshow Gold is a better program. Don't make a Video CD (VCD) - the quality of the playback is poor. Go for high quality DVD
Elements can't actually burn the DVD - you need another program for that. Proshow will do everything and more.
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Hope this helps.
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RemulakI think this discussion thread would be helpful.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4742323?start=0&tstart=0
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To any who have experience with a slide scanner:
My father has years worth of slides from traveling and has selected out a few hundred that he would like to transfer to digital and keep on his Mac.
I am pretty well versed in Photoshop and Illustrator while learning to use Aperture but have no experience in scanning 35 mm slides to digital format.
Since I respect this community, I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on a good photo or slide scanner that won't break the bank but will still provide excellent results (let's say less than $500, but preferably less than $300).
Or am I just sitting on a cloud and there really isn't anything on a high quality level that fits in that budget?
Note - I tend to be somewhat picky in my hardware (evidenced by my switching to a Mac platform and Apple hardware), thus I turn to you all.
Thanks for any input (or even ideas other than scanning at home).
I have a few errands to run, but will check back later for any responses.
TIA -I have scanned several thousand slides using a Nikon Coolscan V ED - sadly, I believe out of production. My first effort was with a Minolta ScanDual IV - nice machine with a slick four slide carrier, but the absence of infrared cleaning was a show stopper. Some thoughts:
-- Dedicated slide/film scanners produce much better results than flat bed adapters.
-- Vuescan is very nice software, much better and faster than NikonScan.
-- I have found no need for Photoshop; Aperture is more than enough, with, perhaps, the exception of really cracked emulsion skies, where layers may be needed to clean up.
-- Infrared cleaning is almost essential for older slides; often being better than actual physical cleaning.
-- It is amazing what you can clean up, but still, GIGO. If it is a poorly exposed, out of focus, thirty year old slide processed by a low cost lab, then digital scanning isn't going to help much.
-- I scan to TIFF (100+MB) because I don't want to scan again and because I want as much data to work with as possible. Newer, less damaged slides may be fine scanned to JPEG.
My website has many examples.
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