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My father shot thousands of slides when we lived in Nigeria in the mid 70's. He still has them, but I have started scanning them myself with Pentax DSLR, and m
by abruzzi 4y ago
My father shot thousands of slides when we lived in Nigeria in the mid 70's. He still has them, but I have started scanning them myself with Pentax DSLR, and macro bellows with slide copying attachment. It been pretty fun--I was 5-6 at during this time, so some of it lines up with my oldest memories. I've found that the Kodachrome slides have have held up much better than the other (mostly Ektachrome) slides. The colors on the Kodachrome look like they were shot yesterday.
My father also has a bunch of super 8 shot by his parents, but I really don't have anything to convert those well, so he sent them off for conversion. Among other things it includes footage of mygrandparents vacationing in Cuba before the revolution.
- _tom_ 4y agoI have a similar situation, but no Pentax. I've been trying to figure out how to scan thousands of my grandfathers slides. Too expensive to send out for processing, I think. But there don't seem to be any good auto-feed scanners and the thought of scanning 5000 slides five at a time is daunting! It's annoying that the slides are all in trays for automated playback with a slide project, but there are no scanners that feed from trays! I'm thinking of setting up a slide projector on auto play and recording that output. At least that would batch by fifty. Any suggestions?
- _tom_ 4y agoI also have a few daguerreotypes to scan. Hard to find a scanner that supports them!