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Scanning slides Anonymous
Hi, I was looking through my parents old pictures and I found a binder of slides, (Kodak elektrochrome even!) And some of their pictures are absolutely amazing, not to mention slightly sentimental, So I was wondering what would be the best way of converting to print them, and or convert to digital.

I took some pictures with my d50 and sb-600 (bounced the light off a white peice of paper underneath it, But the sharpness leaves a bit to be desired)

Picture related

Ive heard of flatbed scanners that can do slides, i found one for 319$ CAD( Epson 4490 perfection photo scanner)

Or anyone know of places in Canada (or if not the States) that can scan these of high enough quality to print say 8x10's (or maybe 11x14's))
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>> Anonymous
my school had some sort of evil scanner from the depths of hell that was able to scan slides/negatives if you sacrificed a virgin goat to it... okay, maybe it wasn't that evil, but it was a real bitch to operate. I bet you can find a college with a photo lab that has one and you can probably use it if you pull the right strings.
>> Anonymous
contact some labs and see how much they ask to scan them. that epson is a nice photo scanner and cheaper in the long run. you can also scan the photos in much higher resolution then the lab (high resolution = time intensive = expensive)
>> Anonymous
>>32730
The epson claims a resolution of 4800x9600 I believe, but thats probably for the full page

and since slides are soo small I only really see it getting 1200x1600 (At best)
Anyone had any experience with that? or how the slide attachment works...
>> Anonymous
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I bring you more slides I digitized with my D50 (+sb-600)(And BR2A on the kit 18-55mm lens, at 55mm reversed)

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>> Richard C. Mongrel
I have an Epson Perfection 4990 Photo (4800 x 9600 dpi); it's great for scanning slides. It's pretty amazing how much detail the Digital ICE (or something similar with a rather stupid name) can retrieve from old photos, slides and such - I've scanned (and later printed) stuff dating back around 80 years with absolutely amazing quality, considering the age and state of the photos. Then again pre-WW2 photography was hellacool.


I've scanned quite a lot of slides, but they're (almost all) Soviet era stuff, so quality isn't exactly superb. The scans are nowhere near bad though.

The only issue is speed and general workflow.. It's not very fast and makes the computer (well, my PCs are aged - P4s with not enough RAM) practically dead.

Review for the 4990: http://www.photo-i.co.uk/Reviews/interactive/Epson%204990/Page%2013.htm

Official sites for the 4490 and 4990 respectively:
http://www.epson.co.uk/products/scanners/Perfection4490Photo.htm
http://www.epson.co.uk/products/scanners/Perfection4990Photo.htm
>> Anonymous
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>>32755

Is the quality say much better or higher resolution than say my d50 pictures? because the 4990 and 4870 are quite expensive considering I would probably only do like maybe 200 slides.

Sample pic at full resolution from my camera so you can see

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