Old slides

[Toad]

Seeing another thread brought this to mind.
What is the best way for scanning slides into the computer? Do I just need to set a flood lamp next to the scanner, and scan with the lid open?
Toad

[kenw]

the best way is to use a dedicated slide scanned, such as a nikon coolscan. A step (or 2) down from there is send them to someplace who will do it for you. Walmart (as an example) does film, not sure about mounted slides tho. Any decent local photo processor should be able to do it.

I have a slide/film adapter on my ancient Nikon coolpix 950 that will net you a 2.1mpixel tif of surprisingly good quality. tricky to use.

[Toad]

I'll have to look around at different places.
The thing that drives me nuts, is that my scanner will scan film into the computer, but not slides. Though it will scan and print the slides onto photos, it won't scan them into the computer.
Todd

[Bartman01]

Originally Posted by kenw

A step (or 2) down from there is send them to someplace who will do it for you. Walmart (as an example) does film, not sure about mounted slides tho. Any decent local photo processor should be able to do it.

Buy/borrow a film scanner. My experiance with even the 'good' labs is that the scans are expensive and only good enough to get a decent 4x6 or maybe a 5x7 print from. Here is a 100% crop of my 'typical' experiance with having a lab scan your stuff: