Hi
I am about to embark on getting some of my 50 year old slides scanned,
probably about 100 immediately, and several hundred more slides later
including some that are only 20 years old.
The digital images will normally be viewed on a computer monitor or
flat screen TV but I may want to project them onto a screen of about
1200 x 900 mm (4 x 3 ft if preferred).
The slides are a mixture of Kodachrome (64?), Ilfochrome, Agfa and
unidentified film in a mixture of card and plastic mounts (some
remounted by myself when the original glue deteriorated on cardboard
mounts)
My old Epson Perfection 1650 will no longer scan slides and would have
very poor resolution by modern standards anyway, so I have the choice
of buying a scanner (new or used) or using a commercial agency to
digitise the slides.
Commercial suppliers offer 2000, 3000, 4000 options with Digital ICE
offered either as standard or as an extra and I am tempted to use one
of the companies for the first batch of slides (at 4000 dpi) to see
what they actually do. This leads to my first question - is it correct
that Digital ICE is unlikely to be worthwhile on Kodachrome slides, as
suggested on some web-pages?
If I chose to purchase a new or secondhand scanner (eg on the 'bay) for
the bulk of the slides am I likely to be satisfied with the results - I
have access to computers running Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8.1(+update1)
so relatively old software would not be a problem if it was provided by
the seller and I do not aspire to the standards of the professional
photographers on this list but want to do justice to the products of an
Agfa Silette (with f3.5 lens) and subsequently OM10 and OM2SP cameras.
Does anyone wish to dispose of a working scanner because they have
upgraded? (Reply off list)
Brian Gray
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