Old colour slides

[Tom Bell]

David Fletcher wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 Oct 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
>>
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>
> I was having a clear out of my email box and came across this thread.
>
> Just after Christmas I bought myself a new, proper SLR digital camera. Now the 
> thought occurs to me that there are slide copier devices that fit on a camera 
> in place of the normal lens. Could you use one of these? There's loads of 
> them available on ebay.
>
> Dave
>
>   
I have an Epson Perfection 1640SU which came with an adapter for slides.
It replaces the normal cover with one that has a built-in light for copying
slides.  The nice thing about the copier is that you can select to do
the photos in any size (dpi) that you wish.  This also allows  for color
(colour in the UK) and B/W in both negative and positive formats.  It
comes with a slide holder and several negative holders for different
sizes of film, i.e., 4x5, 35mm, 2.25x2.25 (known as medium format), etc.
So, look around and see what your preference is and go for it.
Good luck!

Tom

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