Getting 35mm slides onto PC
I do some volunteer work with a local conservation charity (Fleet Pond Society) and they have a need to get a large volume of 35mm slides onto a PC so that they can do pesentations for schools, open days, government funding bodies etc.
To get them done individually they've been told £1 per slide - which is way too much. Can anyone help by either: a) Recommending a very reasonably priced scanner we could get, or b) Offer us use of one for a couple of weeks as we'll really only need it as a one off. Many thanks! :thumb: |
I bought an HP scanner (4850) recently, about £90 IIRC, which has this facility. But results not great but this is probably my incompetence. My local shop want 50p per slide and net seems to be between about 30 - 80p.
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Try Jessops?
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I would say the best thing to do would be to buy a decent film / slide scanner, do the job and then sell the scanner on Ebay afterwards.
Some of the scanners can take multiple slides at once and the process is semi-automated. |
get yourself down to pc world, get a cheap epson scanner for about £60, it should do transparencies and have a slide holder.
cheaper in the long run if you need to do some more scanning in the future |
When I was a lecturer I had (and still have) thousands of slides.... A mate of mine made a holder out a cardboard tube and took digital pics of the slides with the light from a lightbox.
Quality was perfectly alright for Powerpoint :D Midlife..... |
I checked with Jessops - they wanted £1 per side for the first 9 then 50p per slide...
Perhaps best option is to show the slides on a quality screen and photograph the pictures with a digicamera :lol1: - probably be quicker than hand loading slides in a scanner :thumb: Cheers Mick :D |
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