A Few Scans of Old Slides

[Greg B]

A few shots from 25 years ago. Scanned transparencies.

[Matt. K]

Greg
We will have to have a slide night. DVD just lacks the charm.

[Nnnnsic]

I just bought an 8mm Bolex... maybe we need to shoot a D70Users.com film...

[sirhc55]

Greg - I am interested in whether you scanned these slides yourself, or sent them out

[Greg B]

Chris, I scanned them in. I have an Epson Perfection 3170 photo. It is a nice scanner, will do 4 35mm transparencies, or 1 6x6 tranny, or 2 film strips, or prints.

There is a good deal of flexibility in the settings, although I haven't done that much scanning. These were done at 1200 dpi. The resulting image was 1500x900 pixels (or thereabouts). I resized but didn't crop, and a bit of PP. The scanned image was a 4.6Mb tiff.

[mic]

Amazing Gregory Amazing.

A quater of a century and look at the quality
You must keep things well to preserve them.

nice, very nice.

Mic.

[Glen]

Greg, really like the factory and the reflection in the spoon drain

[Greg B]

Thanks Glen. It is fun to look back at the stuff from years ago.

And thsnks mic. They have been kept in slide magazines, and yes they are in pretty good nick.

I might scan some BW negs next.

[sirhc55]

Thanks for the info Greg - the Perfection scanner does the job very well, I am impressed with both your pics and the scans

[Greg B]

Thanks Chris. The software from Epson is excellent too, very flexible and pretty easy to use. I am impressed with the whole thing (and when I bought it, there was a $50 cash back deal. Woohoo)

[the foto fanatic]

Nice images Greg - a fine scanning job.
Did you have to do much PP?

[Greg B]

Thanks cricket. Not much PP, a little unsharp filter, some KPT equaliser on the factory shot.

[the foto fanatic]

I'm a bit surprised the colours are still so good.

[jethro]

well done! nice and sharp as well

[Greg B]

I'm a bit surprised the colours are still so good.

They have effectively been stored in darkness. And I think Kodachrome and Ektachrome are pretty stable.

[NeoN]

Excellent slides GregB obviously you look after them.
I have about 500 slides, and I'm not sure how to go about it. With your exsperiance would you recomend I buy a scaner, or just send them out.
bearing in mind the cost and quality, for both options, any advise and recomendations are welcome.Is there any place in Melbourne that you might recomend.
Thanks .
NeoN.

[Greg B]

NeoN

It is great to have a good scanner, but whether you want to spend the money depends on you. The Epson 3170 is $525, but it can pretty much scan anything.

With scanning slides on the 3170, there are a couple of considerations...
- you can scan four at a time
- you need a reasonable dpi figure, I used 1200 which means
- the scan takes maybe five minutes

I was getting tif files at around 1500x900 pixels and 4.5Mb.

Scanning your 500 slides would take some time.

I don't know anything about sending them out, haven't tried it. However, when you find out, the above is your at home comparison

cheers

[NeoN]

Thanks for all the info Greg,
Taking everything into consiteration especially the time factor, Ithink I send them out provited the quality is there.

Thanks again Greg.
NeoN

[Nikon boy]

Greg, these are wonderful shots, show us some more mate, when i go to Avalon airshow next week i will have two digi bodies and transparency loaded into my F5, call me old fashioned but i feel there is something a Velvia or Provia slide gives that is really special.