Old colour slides

[Neil Winchurst]

Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> I have scanned hundreds of old color slides with an Epson Perfection 
> 2400 Photo scanner - using Vuescan and Xsane. The scanner comes with 
> a 'place-holder' for slides 5cm x 5cm. Some of those old slides have 
> fainted quite some, others not. I scan them with the focus set to 
> 0.5 mm above the glass plate, being careful to adjust the software 
> for film make, such as Kodak, Agfa, Fuji and even an long-forgotten 
> Ferraniacolor. Scanning solution about 600 dpi.
> 
> When scanned, there are scores of software to enhance fainted, 
> blurry and grainy  photos. I prefer Picasa for Linux, but Digikam is 
> well suited too. The final results are actually better than the 
> originals because I can crop, correct contrast and exposure, un-skew 
> and so on and so forth.
> 
> Kaj Haulrich.
Thanks for all that. I will look out for a scanner which will a) have a
place holder for slides and b) will work with Linux. Starting with the
one you mentioned.

By the way, I have used Ferraniacolor and did the processing myself.
Things were very different in those pioneer days.

Neil