[at-l] Slide conversion to digital

[blackwolfe at bellsouth.net (Black Wolfe)]

Well,  Here's what's been happening in the Black Wolfe's den today.

We, well, Rogene, that is, had purchased a slide capable scanner last 
spring.  (An Office Max Closing closeout, a Visioneer 9320 USB.)  Once I 
had acquired the slide mask set that was missing from the package, my 
attempts to scan slides in with it had been notable for their poor 
quality.  This afternoon, after another go-a-round with the manual, and, 
playing with various settings, I got "satisfactory" results with some 
two dozen slides from my personal collection.

Through put runs around 6 minutes per slide.  This includes some minor 
image editing before storage.  Our relatively slow computers are truly 
strutting their stuff here though.  I'll experiment with Rogene's faded 
slides next year (week) ;).  I'll also get prints from some of the files 
and see how the quality holds up.

With around 700 slides in my collection (And that's not counting my 
prints and negatives either!) and perhaps more than 3 times that in 
Rogene's collection, I'm thinking some efforts to speed up the process 
might well be worthwhile.

As to Michelle's reservations:  There will be a window to "update" media 
and format cheaply once a "new" format makes mainstream.  The major 
issue here is the initial digitization and archiving.  There will always 
be some efforts to maintain old formats past their mainstream usage. 
That's not my worry at this point, so much as color correction, and 
getting prints so I can share these "old" pictures.

Thanks for the replys,  Several of which I've saved for reference.

Bruce W.  (Black Wolfe)



> If you are scanning "hundreds" of slides, you can buy a very good 
> quality scanner for less than the *wage* you pay someone else to do it. 
> Anything over 200-300 slides is a break-even point for a mid-range 
> (non-pro) multipurpose scanner.



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