Old colour slides

Richard Barmann reb68 at bellsouth.net
Tue Oct 20 17:48:02 UTC 2009


Neil Winchurst wrote:
> I have been having a sort out at home and have come across a stack of
> old family photo slides. When I say old, some of them from more than
> forty years ago.
>
> I had forgotten about them. Back in those days the common way to take
> family photos was by using slide film.
>
> So my question, what is the best way to transfer such pictures to my
> computer? I do not have a scanner, but anyway, I do not think that a
> scanner copes very well with slides. Perhaps there are specialised types.
>
> There are also some colour prints, incidentally, but not many.
>
> I am running Kubuntu Hardy, if that is relevant.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions, ideas
>
> Neil
>
> This may not help you but I also had old 35mm slides. I gave them to my daughter-in-law, who worked at Wolf Camera, and she transfered them to a cd for me. I do not know what they would charge as she did it for free.
Dick Barmann


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