"Richard Brooks" wrote in message
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S.B. said the following on 18/07/07 09:27:
"Pjmac35" wrote:

They are scanned from old slides

That's interesting. How do you do that?
I have a lot of old slides that I'd like to
put on my computer.

One cheaper and simpler option to buying a specialist 35mm scanner I have
seen slide scanning attachments for standard scanners and as far as I
could see they are a backlighting box offering a uniform white source of
light from behind the slide.

Here is a home made option which might be of interest and can be for just
about any size format.


Years ago I had a slide copying attachment that screwed onto the front of an
SLR - it was basically a set of optical elements focused on a slide holder
with a piece of white translucent plastic behind it as a diffuser. The
light source was either a flash gun on the end of an extension lead, or came
from pointing it at the sky, according to choice. Results were reasonable,
if a little contrasty compared with the originals.

I haven't seen one of those for ages (well, except for mine - unfortunately
not much use now, as they don't do DSLR bodies with M42 thread) so I wonder
whether anyone still makes them.

It's not just the cost that's a consideration - the idea of being able to
copy images as photographs instead of as scans has a certain appeal, since
my veteran slide scanner has a tendancy to banding.


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Dave

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