Anyone with experience scanning slides?

[Mark5]

I have 35mm slides I shot, oh, lets say in the past. I finally dug them up this weekend, and tried to scan them on my ancient but not as ancient HP 3970 scanner. I've seen these slides projected on screen, hell even holding them up to a light they look better than this:

1989


1975 ish (WM BL and slug Hagerstown)


Anyone have any experience or advice?

I guess there are companies that will digitize for a fee, or maybe a device aimed directly at slides would give better results.

Honestly, these are nice slides - they don't suck!

Mark

[wcfn100]

First dumb question, is this a slide scanner?

It looks like there is no backlight.  You have to scan as a transperancy.

I've scanned many slides with HP scanners and always had good results.

Jason

[wcfn100]

Ok, so it is a slide scanner (phew!).

So you put the slides into the holder in the lid (will hold two one slides) and select -> "Slides from a Transparent Materials Adapter"

Did you do that?

edit:make sure the chord from the lid is plugged into the main scanner.

Jason

[Mark5]

So you put the slides into the holder in the lid (will hold two one slides) and select -> "Slides from a Transparent Materials Adapter"

Thanks ... ;D

I read that (and all this other stuff) in the manual, but I don't get the "Slides from a Transparent Materials Adapter" option (fresh install of HP SW DL'd 2nite in XP). Will give it another wack tomorrow.

[DKS]

For a modest fee you can rent a prosumer grade slide scanner. The results should be more than adequate.

I also have a prosumer slide scanner of my own, but ever since I upgraded to Win7, I haven't been able to get it to work. Thanks a lot, Bill.

[Mark5]

edit:make sure the chord from the lid is plugged into the main scanner.

Jason

You may be onto something here. Although it (the TMA plug) is plugged in (has been for years - but never used it!), I read on some random forums that google spat up that sometimes the connection goes bad. Will zero in on this 1st tomorrow.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

You might want to get in touch with White River Productions. They do a lot of scanning for their own library, and you might be able to work out a deal where they get to use the slides in publications in exchange for scanning them for you.

http://www.whiteriverproductions.com/

[Mark5]

Still haven't gotten back to this, maybe tomorrow. :-\