How do I process slides from 1970`s???

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I was having a look under the stairs in my folks house and have found boxes and boxes of slides all from the 70`s. The majority of them appear to be taken in the Nevada USA while visiting my dads uncle. There would appear to be some interesting pics, the only problem being that they are all mounted in slides i.e. prepared in card and plastic mounts ready for projection onto a screen. Is there anyway they can be printed/scanned?? Any suggestions would be great.

Dependant on whats possible I will certainly try and post some
 
Your after a slide scanner, the really only work for mounted slides so you have nothing to worry about :)

you can get them from all prices from cheap ones like this and expensive ones like this and everything in between
 
interesting post - my mum has a load of my grandad's mounted slides (he died over 30 years ago so there are some ancient shots waiting to be looked at).

I'd love to be able to convert them to view them properly

Looks like that's something else added to the shopping list :)
 
I've used a Nikon Coolscan V before, which was excellent. If you've got a lot (which it seems like you do) you'd be cheapest buying a decent slide scanner (such as the V, which costs about £600) then selling it after you're finished. You should get pretty much what you paid for it back on the second hand market.
 
iammartin said:
I've used a Nikon Coolscan V before, which was excellent. If you've got a lot (which it seems like you do) you'd be cheapest buying a decent slide scanner (such as the V, which costs about £600) then selling it after you're finished. You should get pretty much what you paid for it back on the second hand market.
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Yep, exactly as I did. Coolscan V are excellent. Then 10 months later when you rekindle your interest in film, you wish you never sold the scanner in the first place :)
 
chewyuk said:
Yep, exactly as I did. Coolscan V are excellent. Then 10 months later when you rekindle your interest in film, you wish you never sold the scanner in the first place :)
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Haha, well.. if you're doing film, you may as well go the whole way and print your own. :D
 
Hi there i recently salvaged some slides from my father in law and all it is very exciting scanning them in. Its a nice little gift to give to family once they are burnt on to DVD. Just be really careful with them as they can be really fragile and the last thing you want to do is damage them and erase a piece of history. If they are dirty or dusty make sure whatever you use to clean them has no scary chemicals on them that will eat away at the slide. As the others said, buying the scanner is the way to go as if you take them to your local mini lab it is hugely expensive as half the time they send them away to a specialist to do so the cost and time taken is rediculous. Enjoy the time travel as you go through the slides!!
 
I really wouldn't do it yourself with a scanner. It's the world's slowest and most tedius job and you will end up going blind and hating every image. Get somebody to do it for you.

There are lots of places that cater for people just like you, that have inherited shoeboxes full of old pics. If you have a lot, then some folks send them off to firms that use Indian labour. Scancafe comes highly recommended from a friend who spend ages looking into this - high quality reliable service and very good prices.

Sadly, the last I heard was that they only deal with US customers so unless you can arrange your own courier it's maybe not much use to you, but there are plenty of other UK places, even if their prices are not so keen.

www.scancafe.com
 
I am amazed that this query has come up again. All newbies should scan thru previous threads. Anyway you have two choices, dedicated or flatbed scans. Dedicated are said to be the best for quality of pic and flatbed for quantity. My Minolta dedicated and three Epson flatbed scanners. Personally I prefer the flatbeds, but there is little to choose. The Epson scanner only (4870) will scan 8 shots in 1 pass, but the Epson scanner/printers will only take 4. If your slides are in deluxe plastic mounts complete with glass, they will have to be stripped down or the focus will be off.
 
I still think that if you want a simple method to view the slides, then a cheap slide duplicator from Ebay modified to work with a crop sensor is the way ahead, it took me about 5-6 hours to go through about 1500 slides and tidy in PP. worked pretty well.
 
oldfella said:
I am amazed that this query has come up again. All newbies should scan thru previous threads.
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Hmmm

most people are aware of the search facility and maybe Edmond22 did carry out a search before he posted BUT surely that shouldn't deter him from posting a similar question - it's a way of sharing his own unique experience, gaining confidence to ask for advice and encouraging others to post in the thread

apologies if I have stepped out of line here
 
rubber duck said:
Hmmm

most people are aware of the search facility and maybe Edmond22 did carry out a search before he posted BUT surely that shouldn't deter him from posting a similar question - it's a way of sharing his own unique experience, gaining confidence to ask for advice and encouraging others to post in the thread

apologies if I have stepped out of line here
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No worries :) I've yet to find a search forum with a search facility that works really well, and there is certainly nothing better than the memories of regular contributors, who will post a link.

And apart from that, every question is usually slightly different.

If people didn't ask the same questions again, with a new twist, this place would be very dull indeed.
 
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