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Postby sidd finch » Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:10 am

I thought there was a thread about digitizing old slides but could not find it.

I am looking for any experiences using a third party to digitize some old slides I have. I seem to recall Ed having used a company that you were happy with. have a bunch of slides I want to digitize but do not have the tools to do it myself.

Any thoughts?

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Re: Digitizing old slides

Postby Chuck Engels » Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:29 am

I know people, including family members, who have used LegacyBox and were very happy.
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Re: Digitizing old slides

Postby sidd finch » Sun Sep 26, 2021 3:00 pm

Thank you Chuck I will check them out. Appreciated.

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Re: Digitizing old slides

Postby Chuck Engels » Mon Sep 27, 2021 11:53 am

No problem Sidd, There are lots of discount coupon codes available online as well.
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Re: Digitizing old slides

Postby ed » Mon Sep 27, 2021 4:18 pm

I looked at Legacy Box and their service looked good. I also thought their pricing was responable. I eventually went with a local company about 15 minutes from the house because my wife was worried about having her tapes lost in the mail. They did an excellent job.

I scanned all of my old film negatives and slides with an Epson flat bed scanner, and that worked great. It did take a long time to get done though. I just plugged away at for about 3-4 months as I had time.
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Re: Digitizing old slides

Postby sidd finch » Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:09 am

No I just need to remember where I put the slides.... It's always something.... ohhhh squirrel .....

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Re: Digitizing old slides

Postby Chuck Engels » Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:35 am

I used a Canon Printer/Scanner that had an attachment to scan slides and negatives. It did take a while but the quality was excellent.
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Re: Digitizing old slides

Postby John 'twosheds' McDonald » Fri Oct 01, 2021 12:55 am

Chuck Engels wrote:I used a Canon Printer/Scanner that had an attachment to scan slides and negatives. It did take a while but the quality was excellent.

+1 :) (except mine was an Epson V600 scanner).
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Re: Digitizing old slides

Postby ed » Fri Oct 01, 2021 8:34 am

That's the scanner I have John.

One issue I'm having is that some large 'dust' particles are under the glass on one side. I've found a few sites that tell how to clean the glass, but you basically have to take the scanner apart to do it, and I haven't had the courage to try yet. Because of the 'dust' I can only scan one strip of negatives at a time, not two. Not a good design.
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Re: Digitizing old slides

Postby Peru » Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:06 am

I am able to scan the full size of the scanner bed (5 or 6 strips of negatives) with a negative adapter on my scanner.

I didn't worry too much about dust (although I was constantly cleaning the scanner bed) because of the hundreds (or thousands) of negative images, very few would actually be used or printed. I just use Photoshop to clean them up when I'm ready to use them.
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Re: Digitizing old slides

Postby John 'twosheds' McDonald » Sat Oct 02, 2021 12:07 am

Peru wrote:I didn't worry too much about dust...I just use Photoshop to clean them up when I'm ready to use them.

Same here. Great minds think alike...? :-k
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Re: Digitizing old slides

Postby ed » Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:26 am

It’s more then dust, and photoshop tools for that don’t work as well on black and white film.

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