Slide digitising

[AntZ]

Does any one have any experience with digitising slides? My grand father spent many(about 10) years working in Africa in the 60s. At the time he was an avid photographer. I remember as a child watching his may wildlife slides. He has often asked of converting them to digital. I will on holidays in a couple of weeks and will be seing him again and even have time to do/assist the conversion.

[zenon5940]

There are several slide scanners on the market with prices ranging from $100 and up. I did some slide scanning a few years ago with acceptable results. I suppose the new technology would yield better quality yet and do it faster.
The scanner I used was an HP model where you had to load the slides one at the time... It would take around 90 seconds to scan one 35mm slide and, after a bit of practice I could save the file, remove the scanned slide and install a new one in less than 30 seconds... for a total cycle time of 2 minutes. Of course the slide has to be EXTRA clean. Any minute spec of dust will appear magnified on the image.
Using a similar set up, the time required for scanning say 1500 slides, at 2 minutes per slide, would be 50 hours... non stop.
This is why I only did scan but very few of my slides.

If you want to do this yourself, maybe the best way to go about digitizing your slides would be to rent a specialized scanner that could accept a stack of slides in an auto feeder (I only suppose it exists)

[Greg_Nuspel]

You can also do it the old fashion way and use a slide duplicator attachment for a macro lens. Watch eBay for these.

[AntZ]

Thanks Z, Greg

You can also do it the old fashion way and use a slide duplicator attachment for a macro lens. Watch eBay for these.

This is the sort of thing I am interested in because I imagine it would be way faster.

[zenon5940]

You're absolutely right Greg.. easier and faster than any scanner... Sometimes I forget to see the forest because of all the trees...