9/6/2023 0 Comments Digitizing 35mm slides![]() I have not used the newer ES-2, I have only looked at its user sheet online. $60 may seem expensive for a slide holder, but the job it does is about priceless. This macro lens will be optically superior to a 10x diopter close up filter on a regular zoom lens. Adding an extension (between the lens and ES-1) lets it work on a cropped sensor DSLR. ![]() ![]() The ES-1 is an empty tube, a slide holder which contains no glass lens, and is designed to hold the slide in front of a 1:1 macro lens (designed for 55 mm focal length on a full frame body). To work on a DX camera (1.5x crop), the setup as shown also requires an extra 20 mm extension tube between lens and ES-1 (shown, but not included). The ES-1 fits a 52 mm lens filter thread, or a suitable adapter there. It was one thing to sit down one evening with one roll of slides, but it's something entirely different to be facing a few thousand old slides. But the camera is fast, and great for slides. And some film scanners offer an infrared dust and scratch cleaning feature (often named Digital ICE or FARE) that the camera cannot do, which is extremely useful, but it adds even more time (and may be unsuitable for silver-based Kodachrome slides). The digital camera (with a macro lens) can copy slides very well (and fast), but a real film scanner can be better for color negatives (with the film holders, and better quality for removal of the orange mask, on another page). The Nikon 5000 film scanner did have its SF-210 Auto Slide Feeder accessory ($450) for overnight runs of 50 slides, if it doesn't jam. You may do well to average 10 slides per hour overall, so thousands of slides may take many months, and it's a good bet that you may never finish. If you choose to distribute them to loved ones as well, they won’t even know that the images they are viewing were once slides, not photographs! Slides are scanned at 4,000 dpi.Ĭlick here to learn all about our negative scanning services.Film scanners are very good, but are also very slow. You will receive a beautiful collection of digitized images on your flash drives and DVDs, as well as all of your slides, packaged in the same way as we received them. Of course, we will automatically rotate any slides that we receive that are obviously upside down or backward. ![]() To convert 35mm slides to digital, we digitally crop the edges of each slide, just a hair to give them all a nice clean edge, which wasn’t possible 50 years ago. The technology is slightly different, but the result is the same. We take the same care with your slides as we do with your photographs. Those memories are at least as valuable as the ones in the albums and shoeboxes! Their younger family members are usually unaware of the thousands of slides stashed away around the house. Customers with large quantities of slides tend to be older citizens, and they have a unique problem. Memory Fortress wants all of your slides. We’ve worked hard to get our 35mm slide scanning services efficient enough to bring you super high quality at a fair price and fast turnaround time. That’s still the case try getting anyone else to digitize slides for less than 50 cents per slide on a regular order! Historically, there wasn’t a right way to digitize slides.Įither it was too expensive, or digitizing services didn’t want to purchase the equipment required. ![]() Like photographs, slides are prone to deterioration after some time.Ĭustomers who have large quantities of photographs and slides gravitate towards digitizing the photos, but do not convert 35mm slides to digital. This means that tens of millions of households still have their slide projectors and slide carousels. Granted, their heyday was the 1950s through the mid-1970s, after which other forms of media began to render slides obsolete.īut Kodak continued making the carousel projector through October 2004. There was a time when the slide projector and slide carousels seemed poised to take over the world. When was the last time you pulled out your slide projector to view your old slides? We already know the answer. ![]()
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