Slide away

[undyingking]

Can anyone recommend a good place to get a load of 35mm slides converted to digital? Is it going to be hideously expensive whatever? Should I just get a transparency scanner and a slave to operate it?

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[davefish.livejournal.com]

When I was doing this I had use of a film scanner, which was a nice solution. Took ages though, and getting the film clean was the main problem. The time issue wasn't so bad, as I was able to do other things whilst the thing was scanning, and then pop back to start the next one going.

I think that they go for a reasonable amount of cash on ebay, so you could always get one, use it for a month, and then sell it on.

If you can get once with ICE, then go for that, manually retouching the dust on the images gets rather boring after a while. Oh, and good luck!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*nods*
I've been looking for one to do my old negatives at one point and getting one off ebay and then reselling it seems to be the best option.
Scanners like this one seem to be going for around 50 quid.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Hmm, OK, that doesn't sound too bad! -- I'll get watching.